- Such a one must stay, like women, far off from the battle-field and the spears.
- آن چنان کس را بباید چون زنان ** دور بودن از مصاف و از سنان
- That one a Súfí and this one (too) a Súfí! Here's a pity! That one is killed by a needle, while the sword is this one's food. 3805
- صوفیی آن صوفیی این اینت حیف ** آن ز سوزن کشته این را طعمه سیف
- He (the false Súfí) is (only) the figure of a Súfí: he has no soul (life); accordingly, the (true) Súfís get a bad name from Súfís such as these.
- نقش صوفی باشد او را نیست جان ** صوفیان بدنام هم زین صوفیان
- Upon the door and wall of the body moulded of clay God, in His jealousy, traced the figures of a hundred Súfís (of this sort),
- بر در و دیوار جسم گلسرشت ** حق ز غیرت نقش صد صوفی نبشت
- To the end that by means of magic those figures should move and that Moses' rod should be hidden.
- تا ز سحر آن نقشها جنبان شود ** تا عصای موسوی پنهان شود
- The truth of the rod swallows up the figures, (but) the Pharaoh-like eye is filled with dust and gravel (and cannot see).
- نقشها را میخورد صدق عصا ** چشم فرعونیست پر گرد و حصا
- Another Súfí entered the battle-line twenty times for the purpose of fighting 3810
- صوفی دیگر میان صف حرب ** اندر آمد بیست بار از بهر ضرب
- Along with the Moslems when they attacked the infidels; he did not fall back with the Moslems in their retreat.
- با مسلمانان به کافر وقت کر ** وانگشت او با مسلمانان به فر
- He was wounded, but he bandaged the wound which he had received, and once more advanced to the charge and combat,
- زخم خورد و بست زخمی را که خورد ** بار دیگر حمله آورد و نبرد
- In order that his body might not die cheaply at one blow and that he might receive twenty blows in the battle.
- تا نمیرد تن به یک زخم از گزاف ** تا خورد او بیست زخم اندر مصاف