- Ye are stumbling along: at my word (in obedience to my command) go at a jog-trot, that ye may become gentle and be suitable for the king to ride. 2010
- سکسکانید از دمم یرغا روید ** تا یواش و مرکب سلطان شوید
- The Lord said, ‘Say, Come ye, say, Come ye, O beasts that have shied away from discipline.
- قل تعالوا قل تعالو گفت رب ** ای ستوران رمیده از ادب
- If they come not, O Prophet, be not grieved: be not full of hatred on account of those twain without steadfastness.’”
- گر نیایند ای نبی غمگین مشو ** زان دو بی‌تمکین تو پر از کین مشو
- The ears of some are deaf to these (cries of) ta‘álaw: every beast hath a different stable.
- گوش بعضی زین تعالواها کرست ** هر ستوری را صطبلی دیگرست
- Some are put to flight by this call: the stall of every horse is separate.
- منهزم گردند بعضی زین ندا ** هست هر اسپی طویله‌ی او جدا
- Some are chagrined by this story, for every bird hath a separate cage. 2015
- منقبض گردند بعضی زین قصص ** زانک هر مرغی جدا دارد قفص
- Even the angels too were not peers: for this reason they formed diverse ranks in Heaven.
- خود ملایک نیز ناهمتا بدند ** زین سبب بر آسمان صف صف شدند
- Children, though they are at one (the same) school, surpass each other in (their) lessons.
- کودکان گرچه به یک مکتب درند ** در سبق هر یک ز یک بالاترند
- Sense-perceptions are possessed by Easterner and Westerner, (but) the function of sight belongs to the ocular sense (alone).
- مشرقی و مغربی را حسهاست ** منصب دیدار حس چشم‌راست
- Though a hundred thousand ears be arrayed in rank, they all are in need of the clear eye.
- صد هزاران گوشها گر صف زنند ** جمله محتاجان چشم روشن‌اند