- When Solomon uttered a single whistling note to the birds of Sabá he ensnared them all,
- چون سلیمان سوی مرغان سبا ** یک صفیری کرد بست آن جمله را
- Except, maybe, the bird that was without spirit or wings, or was dumb and deaf, like a fish, from the beginning. 860
- جز مگر مرغی که بد بی‌جان و پر ** یا چو ماهی گنگ بود از اصل کر
- Nay, I have spoken wrongly, for if the deaf one lay his head before the inspiration of the Divine Majesty, it will give to him (the power of) hearing.
- نی غلط گفتم که کر گر سر نهد ** پیش وحی کبریا سمعش دهد
- When Bilqís set out (from Sabá) with heart and soul, she felt remorse too for the bygone time,
- چونک بلقیس از دل و جان عزم کرد ** بر زمان رفته هم افسوس خورد
- She took leave of her kingdom and riches in the same way as those lovers (of God) take leave of honour and disgrace (reputation).
- ترک مال و ملک کرد او آن چنان ** که بترک نام و ننگ آن عاشقان
- Those charming pages and handmaidens (of hers seemed) to her eye (loathly) as a rotten onion.
- آن غلامان و کنیزان بناز ** پیش چشمش هم‌چو پوسیده پیاز
- For love’s sake, orchards and palaces and river-water seemed to her eye (contemptible as) a dunghill. 865
- باغها و قصرها و آب رود ** پیش چشم از عشق گلحن می‌نمود
- Love, in the hour of domination and anger, makes the pleasing ones to become hideous to the eye.
- عشق در هنگام استیلا و خشم ** زشت گرداند لطیفان را به چشم
- Love’s jealousy causes every emerald to appear as a leek: this is the (inner) meaning of Lá.
- هر زمرد را نماید گندنا ** غیرت عشق این بود معنی لا
- O (thou who givest) protection , (the meaning of) “There is no god but He” is that the moon should seem to thee a black kettle.
- لااله الا هو اینست ای پناه ** که نماید مه ترا دیگ سیاه