- Because of (our) extreme ignorance and blindness we are seeking to hurt those honoured of God.
- میکنیم از غایت جهل و عما ** قصد آزار عزیزان خدا
- How should the flock of birds which are enlightened by Solomon tear out the wings and plumes of the innocent?
- جمع مرغان کز سلیمان روشنند ** پر و بال بیگنه کی بر کنند
- Nay, they would bring grain to the helpless ones: gentle are those birds and without pugnacity or hatred. 3750
- بلکه سوی عاجزان چینه کشند ** بیخلاف و کینه آن مرغان خوشند
- Their hoopoe, for the sake of glorifying (Solomon), unfolds the way (towards Him) to a hundred like Bilqís.
- هدهد ایشان پی تقدیس را ** میگشاید راه صد بلقیس را
- Their crow, (even) if it was a crow in outward aspect, was (really) a falcon in aspiration and (one whose gaze) turned not aside.
- زاغ ایشان گر به صورت زاغ بود ** باز همت آمد و ما زاغ بود
- Their stork, which cries lak lak, casts upon doubt (and disbelief) the fire of the profession of Unity;
- لکلک ایشان که لک لک میزند ** آتش توحید در شک میزند
- And their dove is not scared by hawks: the hawk lays his head (in homage) before their dove.
- و آن کبوترشان ز بازان نشکهد ** باز سر پیش کبوترشان نهد
- Their nightingale, which throws thee into ecstasy, hath the rose-garden in its heart. 3755
- بلبل ایشان که حالت آرد او ** در درون خویش گلشن دارد او
- Their parrot was (always) independent of sugar, for the sugar of everlastingness showed its face (was revealed) to it from within.
- طوطی ایشان ز قند آزاد بود ** کز درون قند ابد رویش نمود
- The feet of their peacocks are fairer to see than (all) others in peacock's plumage.
- پای طاوسان ایشان در نظر ** بهتر از طاوس پران دگر