- Form is like a garment or a staff: (bodily) figures do not move except by means of intellect and spirit.”
- صورت آمد چون لباس و چون عصا ** جز به عقل و جان نجنبد نقشها
- He (the wise ant) was unaware that without the controlling influence of God that intellect and heart (mind) would be inert.
- بی‌خبر بود او که آن عقل و فاد ** بی ز تقلیب خدا باشد جماد
- If He withdraw His favour from it for a single moment, the acute intellect will commit (many) follies.
- یک زمان از وی عنایت بر کند ** عقل زیرک ابلهیها می‌کند
- When Dhu ’l-Qarnayn found it (Mount Qáf) speaking, he said, after Mount Qáf had bored the pearls of speech, 3730
- چونش گویا یافت ذوالقرنین گفت ** چونک کوه قاف در نطق سفت
- “O eloquent one, who art wise and knowest the mystery, expound to me the Attributes of God.”
- کای سخن‌گوی خبیر رازدان ** از صفات حق بکن با من بیان
- It answered, “Go, for those qualities are too terrible for (oral) exposition to put its hand on them,
- گفت رو کان وصف از آن هایل‌ترست ** که بیان بر وی تواند برد دست
- Or for the pen to dare inscribe with its point information concerning them on the pages (of books).”
- یا قلم را زهره باشد که به سر ** بر نویسد بر صحایف زان خبر
- He said, “Relate a lesser tale concerning the wonders of God, O goodly divine.”
- گفت کمتر داستانی باز گو ** از عجبهای حق ای حبر نکو
- It said, “Look, the King (God) hath made a plain full of snow-mountains, for the distance of a three hundred years' journey— 3735
- گفت اینک دشت سیصدساله راه ** کوههای برف پر کردست شاه
- Mountain on mountain, beyond count and number: the snow comes continually to replenish them.
- کوه بر که بی‌شمار و بی‌عدد ** می‌رسد در هر زمان برفش مدد