- That person who bored the pearl of interpretation, interpreted the mention of the star thus—
- ذکر کوکب را چنین تاویل گفت ** آن کسی که گوهر تاویل سفت
- (That) the world of imagination and blinding phantasy uprooted such a mountain (of wisdom) from its foundation,
- عالم وهم و خیال چشم‌بند ** آنچنان که را ز جای خویش کند
- So that the words, “This is my Lord,” were uttered by him: what, (then), must be the case with a goose or an ass?
- تا که هذا ربی آمد قال او ** خربط و خر را چه باشد حال او
- Understandings (strong) as mountains have been submerged in the seas of imagination and the whirlpools of phantasy.
- غرق گشته عقلهای چون جبال ** در بحار وهم و گرداب خیال
- Mountains are put to shame by this Flood: where is any safety (to be found) but in the Ship (Ark) of Noah? 2655
- کوهها را هست زین طوفان فضوح ** کو امانی جز که در کشتی نوح
- By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.
- زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین
- The man of sure faith is delivered from imagination and phantasy: he does not call a hair of the eyebrow the new moon,
- مرد ایقان رست از وهم و خیال ** موی ابرو را نمی‌گوید هلال
- While he that has not the (spiritual) light of ‘Umar as his support is waylaid (deceived) by a crooked hair of the eyebrow.
- وآنک نور عمرش نبود سند ** موی ابروی کژی راهش زند
- A hundred thousand awful and terrible ships have been shattered to pieces in the sea of imagination.
- صد هزاران کشتی با هول و سهم ** تخته تخته گشته در دریای وهم
- The least (of them is) the energetic and ingenious Pharaoh: his moon was eclipsed in the mansion of imagination. 2660
- کمترین فرعون چست فیلسوف ** ماه او در برج وهمی در خسوف