- If one takes hold of a horse's neck, he gains advantage; and if he takes hold of its leg, he receives a kick.
- گردن اسپ ار بگیرد بر خورد ** ور بگیرد پاش بستاند لگد
- Do not mount the restive horse without a bridle: make Reason and Religion your leader, and farewell. 465
- کم نشین بر اسپ توسن بی‌لگام ** عقل و دین را پیشوا کن والسلام
- Do not look scornfully and contemptuously on this quest, for in this Way there is (need of) self-denial and grievous anguish to (men's) souls.
- اندرین آهنگ منگر سست و پست ** کاندرین ره صبر و شق انفسست
- The rest of the Story of the building of the Farther Mosque.
- بقیه‌ی قصه‌ی بنای مسجد اقصی
- When Solomon began the building—holy like the Ka’ba, august like Miná—
- چون سلیمان کرد آغاز بنا ** پاک چون کعبه همایون چون منی
- In his building were seen splendour and magnificence: it was not frigid (dull and lifeless) like other buildings.
- در بنااش دیده می‌شد کر و فر ** نی فسرده چون بناهای دگر
- From the first, every stone in the building—(every stone) that was broken off from the mountain—was saying clearly, “Take me along!”
- در بنا هر سنگ کز که می‌سکست ** فاش سیروا بی‌همی گفت از نخست
- As from the water and earth of the house (bodily tenement) of Adam, (so) did light shine forth from the pieces of mortar. 470
- هم‌چو از آب و گل آدم‌کده ** نور ز آهک پاره‌ها تابان شده
- The stones were coming without carrier, and those doors and walls had become living.
- سنگ بی‌حمال آینده شده ** وان در و دیوارها زنده شده
- God saith that the ‘wall of Paradise is not lifeless and ugly like (other) walls;
- حق همی‌گوید که دیوار بهشت ** نیست چون دیوارها بی‌جان و زشت
- Like the door and wall of the body, it is (endowed) with intelligence: the house (Paradise) is living since it belongs to the King of kings.
- چون در و دیوار تن با آگهیست ** زنده باشد خانه چون شاهنشهیست