- The colour of red anemone becomes the colour of saffron; his lion-like strength becomes as the courage of women.
- رنگ لاله گشته رنگ زعفران ** زور شیرش گشته چون زهرهی زنان
- He that used to grip a man in his arms by skill (in wrestling), (now) they take hold of his arms (to support him) at the time of departure.
- آنک مردی در بغل کردی به فن ** میبگیرندش بغل وقت شدن
- Truly these are marks of pain and decay: every one of them is a messenger of death.
- این خود آثار غم و پژمردگیست ** هر یکی زینها رسول مردگیست
- Commentary on “The lowest of the low, except those who have believed and wrought good works; for they shall have a reward that is not cut off.”
- تفسیر اسفل سافلین الا الذین آمنوا و عملوا الصالحات فلهم اجر غیر مومنون
- But if his physician be the Light of God, there is no loss or crushing blow (that he will suffer) from old age and fever.
- لیک گر باشد طبیبش نور حق ** نیست از پیری و تب نقصان و دق
- His weakness is like the weakness of the intoxicated, for in his weakness he is the envy of a Rustam. 975
- سستی او هست چون سستی مست ** که اندر آن سستیش رشک رستمست
- If he die, his bones are drowned in (spiritual) savour; every mote of him is (floating) in the beams of the light of love-desire.
- گر بمیرد استخوانش غرق ذوق ** ذره ذرهش در شعاع نور شوق
- And he who hath not that (Light) is an orchard without fruit, which the autumn brings to ruin.
- وآنک آنش نیست باغ بیثمر ** که خزانش میکند زیر و زبر
- The roses remain not; (only) the black thorns remain: it becomes pale and pithless like a heap of straw.
- گل نماند خارها ماند سیاه ** زرد و بیمغز آمده چون تل کاه
- O God, I wonder what fault did that orchard commit, that these (beautiful) robes should be stripped from it.
- تا چه زلت کرد آن باغ ای خدا ** که ازو این حلهها گردد جدا
- “It paid regard to itself, and self-regard is a deadly poison. Beware, O thou who art put to the trial!” 980
- خویشتن را دید و دید خویشتن ** زهر قتالست هین ای ممتحن