- The lowness and loftiness of this earth are of another sort: for one half of the year it is barren and for (the other) half (it is) green and fresh.
- خفض و رفع این زمین نوعی دگر ** نیم سالی شوره نیمی سبز و تر
- The lowness and loftiness of distressful Time are of another sort: one half day and (the other) half night. 1850
- خفض و رفع روزگار با کرب ** نوع دیگر نیم روز و نیم شب
- The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).
- خفض و رفع این مزاج ممترج ** گاه صحت گاه رنجوری مضج
- Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.
- هم‌چنین دان جمله احوال جهان ** قحط و جدب و صلح و جنگ از افتتان
- By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,
- این جهان با این دو پر اندر هواست ** زین دو جانها موطن خوف و رجاست
- To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,
- تا جهان لرزان بود مانند برگ ** در شمال و در سموم بعث و مرگ
- (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes; 1855
- تا خم یک‌رنگی عیسی ما ** بشکند نرخ خم صدرنگ را
- For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).
- کان جهان هم‌چون نمکسار آمدست ** هر چه آنجا رفت بی‌تلوین شدست
- Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.
- خاک را بین خلق رنگارنگ را ** می‌کند یک رنگ اندر گورها
- This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.
- این نمکسار جسوم ظاهرست ** خود نمکسار معانی دیگرست