- When a master surpasses (all others) in his craft, don't you say (to him), “The craft is sealed on thee”?
- چونک در صنعت برد استاد دست ** نه تو گویی ختم صنعت بر توست
- In the opening of seals thou (O Mohammed) art the Seal: in the world of the givers of spiritual life thou art the Hátim.
- در گشاد ختمها تو خاتمی ** در جهان روح‌بخشان حاتمی
- The purport (is this, that) the indications (esoteric teachings) of Mohammed are wholly revelation within revelation within revelation.
- هست اشارات محمدالمراد ** کل گشاد اندر گشاد اندر گشاد
- A hundred thousand blessings on his spirit and on the advent and cycle of his sons! 175
- صد هزاران آفرین بر جان او ** بر قدوم و دور فرزندان او
- Those fortunate Caliph-born sons of his are born of the substance of his soul and heart.
- آن خلیفه‌زادگان مقبلش ** زاده‌اند از عنصر جان و دلش
- Whether they be of Baghdád or Herát or Rayy, they are his progeny without admixture of water and earth.
- گر ز بغداد و هری یا از ری‌اند ** بی‌مزاج آب و گل نسل وی‌اند
- Wherever the rose-bough blossoms, ’tis still the (same) rose; wherever the wine-jar bubbles, ’tis still the (same) wine.
- شاخ گل هر جا که روید هم گلست ** خم مل هر جا که جوشد هم ملست
- If the sun uplift its head (rise) from the west, ’tis the same sun, not anything else.
- گر ز مغرب بر زند خورشید سر ** عین خورشیدست نه چیز دگر
- O Maker, by means of Thy veiling grace keep the fault-pickers blind to this (mystic) utterance. 180
- عیب چینان را ازین دم کور دار ** هم بستاری خود ای کردگار
- God said (in answer to my prayer), “I have blindfolded the eyes of the evil-natured bat (so as to prevent it) from (seeing) the peerless Sun.
- گفت حق چشم خفاش بدخصال ** بسته‌ام من ز آفتاب بی‌مثال