- His face will be coloured with roses from the rosery of God: he will surpass me in station.”
- رویش از گلزار حق گلگون بود ** از من او اندر مقام افزون بود
- (The disciple asked), “What is his name?” He replied, “His name is Bu ’l- Hasan,” and described his features—his eyebrows and chin;
- چیست نامش گفت نامش بوالحسن ** حلیه‌اش وا گفت ز ابرو و ذقن
- He described his height and his complexion and his figure and spoke in detail of his locks of hair and his face.
- قد او و رنگ او و شکل او ** یک به یک واگفت از گیسو و رو
- He also declared his spiritual features—his qualities and the way (he should follow in his religion) and his (spiritual) rank and estate.
- حلیه‌های روح او را هم نمود ** از صفات و از طریقه و جا و بود
- The bodily features, like the body (itself), are borrowed (transient): set not your heart on them, for they are lasting (only) one hour. 1840
- حلیه‌ی تن هم‌چو تن عاریتیست ** دل بر آن کم نه که آن یک ساعتیست
- The features of the natural (animal) spirit also are perishable: seek the features of that spirit which is above the sky.
- حلیه‌ی روح طبیعی هم فناست ** حلیه‌ی آن جان طلب کان بر سماست
- Its body is on the earth, like a lamp, (but) its light is above the Seventh Roof (of heaven).
- جسم او هم‌چون چراغی بر زمین ** نور او بالای سقف هفتمین
- Those rays of the sun are in the house, (but) their orb is in the Fourth Dome (of heaven).
- آن شعاع آفتاب اندر وثاق ** قرص او اندر چهارم چارطاق
- The form of the rose is (placed) beneath the nose for idle pleasure's sake, (but) the scent of the rose is on the roof and palace of the brain.
- نقش گل در زیربینی بهر لاغ ** بوی گل بر سقف و ایوان دماغ
- A man asleep sees terror (dreams of something which terrifies him) at Aden: the reflexion thereof appears as sweat on his body. 1845
- مرد خفته در عدن دیده فرق ** عکس آن بر جسم افتاده عرق