- Hundreds of thousands of snakes and mountains are amazed at him: why (then) has he become amazed and fond of a snake?
- صد هزاران مار و که حیران اوست ** او چرا حیران شدست و ماردوست
- The snake-catcher took up that snake and came to Baghdád for the sake of (exciting) astonishment.
- مارگیر آن اژدها را بر گرفت ** سوی بغداد آمد از بهر شگفت
- In quest of a paltry fee he carried along a dragon like the pillar of a house,
- اژدهایی چون ستون خانه‌ای ** می‌کشیدش از پی دانگانه‌ای
- Saying, “I have brought a dead dragon: I have suffered agonies in hunting it.” 1005
- کاژدهای مرده‌ای آورده‌ام ** در شکارش من جگرها خورده‌ام
- He thought it was dead, but it was living, and he did not see it very well.
- او همی مرده گمان بردش ولیک ** زنده بود و او ندیدش نیک نیک
- It was frozen by frosts and snow: it was alive, but it presented the appearance of the dead.
- او ز سرماها و برف افسرده بود ** زنده بود و شکل مرده می‌نمود
- The world is frozen: its name is jamád (inanimate): jámid is (means) “frozen,” O master.
- عالم افسردست و نام او جماد ** جامد افسرده بود ای اوستاد
- Wait till the sun of the Resurrection shall become manifest, that thou mayst see the movement of the world's body.
- باش تا خورشید حشر آید عیان ** تا ببینی جنبش جسم جهان
- When here (in this world) the rod of Moses became a snake, information was given to the intellect concerning motionless (inanimate) beings. 1010
- چون عصای موسی اینجا مار شد ** عقل را از ساکنان اخبار شد
- Since He (God) made thy piece of earth a man, thou shouldst recognise (the real nature of) the entire sum of the particles of earth:
- پاره‌ی خاک ترا چون مرد ساخت ** خاکها را جملگی شاید شناخت