- If every busybody had found the track (had attained) to His grace, how should God have sent so many prophets?
- گر بفضلش پی ببردی هر فضول ** کی فرستادی خدا چندین رسول
- The particular intellect is like the lightning and the flash: how is it possible to go to Wakhsh in a flash?
- عقل جزوی هم‌چو برقست و درخش ** در درخشی کی توان شد سوی وخش
- The light of the lightning is not for guidance on the way; nay, it is a command to the cloud to weep. 3320
- نیست نور برق بهر رهبری ** بلک امریست ابر را که می‌گری
- The lightning of our intellect is for the sake of weeping, to the end that nonexistence may weep in longing for (real) existence.
- برق عقل ما برای گریه است ** تا بگرید نیستی در شوق هست
- The child's intellect said, “Attend school”; but it cannot learn by itself.
- عقل کودک گفت بر کتاب تن ** لیک نتواند به خود آموختن
- The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him.
- عقل رنجور آردش سوی طبیب ** لیک نبود در دوا عقلش مصیب
- Mark, the devils were going heavenward and listening to the secrets on high
- نک شیاطین سوی گردون می‌شدند ** گوش بر اسرار بالا می‌زدند
- And carrying away a little of those secrets, till the shooting stars quickly drove them from heaven, 3325
- می‌ربودند اندکی زان رازها ** تا شهب می‌راندشان زود از سما
- Saying, “Begone! A prophet is come there (on the earth): from him will be obtained whatsoever ye crave.
- که روید آنجا رسولی آمدست ** هر چه می‌خواهید زو آید به دست
- If ye are seeking priceless pearls, enter the houses by their doors.
- گر همی‌جویید در بی‌بها ** ادخلوا الابیات من ابوابها