- His (the Khwája's) ebb and flow was caused by a (great) foaming Sea: (now) the ebb has ceased and (only) the flow remains.
- جزر و مدش بد به بحری در زبد ** منتهی شد جزر و باقی ماند مد
- I am nine thousand (dinars) in debt and have no resources: there are (only) a hundred dinars, (resulting) from this subscription.
- نه هزارم وام و من بی دست‌رس ** هست صد دینار ازین توزیع و بس
- God hath withdrawn thee (from this world) and I am left in agony: I am going (hence) in despair, O thou whose dust is sweet! 3325
- حق کشیدت ماندم در کش‌مکش ** می‌روم نومید ای خاک تو خوش
- Keep in thy mind a prayer for thy grief-stricken (mourner), O thou whose face and hands and prayers are auspicious.
- همتی می‌دار در پر حسرتت ** ای همایون روی و دست و همتت
- I come to the spring and the source of (all) fountains: I find in it instead of water blood.
- آمدم بر چشمه و اصل عیون ** یافتم در وی به جای آب خون
- The sky is the same sky, (but) ’tis not the same moonlight: the river is the same river, (but) the water is not the same water.
- چرخ آن چرخست آن مهتاب نیست ** جوی آن جویست آب آن آب نیست
- There are benefactors, (but) where is that one who was found (by all) to be (supremely) good? There are stars, (but) where is that sun?
- محسنان هستند کو آن مستطاب ** اختران هستند کو آن آفتاب
- Thou hast gone unto God, O venerated man: I too, therefore, will go unto God.” 3330
- تو شدی سوی خدا ای محترم ** پس به سوی حق روم من نیز هم
- God is the assembly-place where the generations (of mankind) are mustered under His banner: all are brought before Us.
- مجمع و پای علم ماوی القرون ** هست حق کل لدینا محضرون
- The pictures (phenomenal forms), whether unconscious or conscious (of it), are (always) present in the hand of the Painter.
- نقش‌ها گر بی‌خبر گر با خبر ** در کف نقاش باشد محتصر