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
The shirt (of Joseph) was in Egypt in the keeping of one exceedingly careful (of it): (the land of) Canaan was filled with the (sweet) scent of that shirt.
پیرهن در مصر رهن یک حریص ** پر شده کنعان ز بوی آن قمیص
Thereupon they wrote down the (predicted) date: they adorned the spit with the meat for roasting.
بر نبشتند آن زمان تاریخ را ** از کباب آراستند آن سیخ را
When the right time and date arrived, that (spiritual) king was born and played the dice of empire.
چون رسید آن وقت و آن تاریخ راست ** زاده شد آن شاه و نرد ملک باخت
After those years (had passed), Bu ’l-Hasan appeared (in the world) after the death of Báyazíd.
از پس آن سالها آمد پدید ** بوالحسن بعد وفات بایزید