- Through the contrivance of the Creator, in its (your soul's) fancy all the expanse above the pit is (full of) poison and snakes; 1380
- در خیال او ز مکر کردگار ** جمله صحرا فوق چه زهرست و مار
- Consequently it has made the pit a refuge (for itself), so that (fear of) death has cast it into the pit.
- لاجرم چه را پناهی ساختست ** تا که مرگ او را به چاه انداختست
- (Having heard) what I have said concerning your misapprehensions, O dear friend, hear also the utterance of ‘Attár on this same (subject).
- اینچ گفتم از غلطهات ای عزیز ** هم برین بشنو دم عطار نیز
- Story of Sultan Mahmúd and the Hindú boy.
- قصه‌ی سلطان محمود و غلام هندو
- He, God have mercy upon him, has told it: he has strung together the tale of King Mahmúd, the Ghází—
- رحمة الله علیه گفته است ** ذکر شه محمود غازی سفته است
- How, amongst the booty of his campaign in India, (there was) a boy (who) was brought into the presence of that sovereign.
- کز غزای هند پیش آن همام ** در غنیمت اوفتادش یک غلام
- Afterwards he made him his vicegerent and seated him on the throne and gave him preferment above (the rest of) the army and called him “son.” 1385
- پس خلیفه‌ش کرد و بر تختش نشاند ** بر سپه بگزیدش و فرزند خواند
- Seek the length and breadth and all particulars of the story in the discourse of that prince of the Faith.
- طول و عرض و وصف قصه تو به تو ** در کلام آن بزرگ دین بجو
- In short, the lad was seated on this throne of gold beside the King-emperor.
- حاصل آن کودک برین تخت نضار ** شسته پهلوی قباد شهریار
- He wept and shed tears in burning grief. The King said to him, “O thou whose day (fortune) is triumphant,
- گریه کردی اشک می‌راندی بسوز ** گفت شه او را کای پیروز روز
- Wherefore shouldst thou weep? Has thy fortune become disagreeable to thee? Thou art above kings, (thou art) the familiar companion of the Emperor.
- از چه گریی دولتت شد ناگوار ** فوق املاکی قرین شهریار