- (The Divine) Wisdom has bound these contraries together: O butcher, this fleshy thigh-bone goes along with the neck.
- حکمت این اضداد را با هم ببست ** ای قصاب این گردران با گردنست
- The spirit cannot function without the body; your body is frozen (inanimate) and cold (inert) without the spirit.
- روح بیقالب نداند کار کرد ** قالبت بیجان فسرده بود و سرد
- Your body is visible, while your spirit is hidden from view: the business of the world is conducted by means of them both.
- قالبت پیدا و آن جانت نهان ** راست شد زین هر دو اسباب جهان
- If you throw earth at (some one's) head, his head will not be broken; if you throw water at his head, it will not be broken. 3425
- خاک را بر سر زنی سر نشکند ** آب را بر سر زنی در نشکند
- If you wish to break his head, you bring the earth and the water into contact with each other (and make a lump of clay).
- گر تو میخواهی که سر را بشکنی ** آب را و خاک را بر هم زنی
- When you have broken your head, its water (the spirit) returns to its source, and earth returns to earth on the day of separation.
- چون شکستی سر رود آبش به اصل ** خاک سوی خاک آید روز فصل
- The providential purpose that God had—namely, humble supplication or obstinate contumacy—was fulfilled by means of the marriage (of body and spirit).
- حکمتی که بود حق را ز ازدواج ** گشت حاصل از نیاز و از لجاج
- Then (afterwards) there are other marriages that no ear hath heard and no eye hath seen.
- باشد آنگه ازدواجات دگر ** لا سمع اذن و لا عین بصر
- If the ear had heard, how should the ear have remained (in action) or how should it have apprehended words any more? 3430
- گر شنیدی اذن کی ماندی اذن ** یا کجا کردی دگر ضبط سخن
- If the snow and ice were to behold the sun, they would despair of (retaining their) iciness;
- گر بدیدی برف و یخ خورشید را ** از یخی برداشتی اومید را