- And though you read a hundred volumes without a pause, you will not remember a single point (of argument) without the Divine decree;
- ور بخوانی صد صحف بی سکته‌ای ** بی قدر یادت نماند نکته‌ای
- But if you serve God and do not read a single book, you will learn rare sciences from your (own) bosom.
- ور کنی خدمت نخوانی یک کتاب ** علمهای نادره یابی ز جیب
- The hand of Moses was spreading from his bosom a radiance that surpassed the moon in the sky,
- شد ز جیب آن کف موسی ضو فشان ** کان فزون آمد ز ماه آسمان
- Saying (implicitly), “That which thou wert seeking from the terrible celestial sphere hath uprisen, O Moses, from thy own bosom,
- کانک می‌جستی ز چرخ با نهیب ** سر بر آوردستت ای موسی ز جیب
- In order that thou mayst know that the lofty heavens are the reflexion of the perceptive (rational) faculties of Man.” 1935
- تا بدانی که آسمانهای سمی ** هست عکس مدرکات آدمی
- Is it not (the case) that the hand of the Glorious God created Reason first (of all), before (the creation of) the two worlds?
- نی که اول دست برد آن مجید ** از دو عالم پیشتر عقل آفرید
- This discourse is clear (to some) and exceedingly recondite (to others), for the fly is not intimate with the ‘Anqá.
- این سخن پیدا و پنهانست بس ** که نباشد محرم عنقا مگس
- O son, return once more to the tale: bring the tale of the treasure and the fakir to an end.
- باز سوی قصه باز آ ای پسر ** قصه‌ی گنج و فقیر آور به سر
- Conclusion of the Story of the fakir and (a description of) the signs indicating the position of the treasure.
- تمامی قصه‌ی آن فقیر و نشان جای آن گنج
- This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.
- اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین
- (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert. 1940
- آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست