- A certain Amír had a fine horse: there was no equal to it in the Sultan's troop. 3345
- بود امیری را یکی اسپی گزین ** در گله‌ی سلطان نبودش یک قرین
- Early (one morning) he rode out in the royal cavalcade: suddenly the Khwárizmsháh observed the horse.
- او سواره گشت در موکب به گاه ** ناگهان دید اسپ را خوارزمشاه
- Its beauty and colour enraptured the king's eye: till his return (home) the king's eye was following the horse.
- چشم شه را فر و رنگ او ربود ** تا به رجعت چشم شه با اسپ بود
- On whichever limb he let his gaze fall, each seemed to him more pleasing than the other.
- بر هر آن عضوش که افکندی نظر ** هر یکش خوشتر نمودی زان دگر
- Besides elegance and beauty and spiritedness, God had bestowed on it (other) exquisite qualities.
- غیر چستی و گشی و روحنت ** حق برو افکنده بد نادر صفت
- Then the king's mind sought to discover what it could be that waylaid (and overpowered) his reason, 3350
- پس تجسس کرد عقل پادشاه ** کین چه باشد که زند بر عقل راه
- Saying, “My eye is full and satisfied and wanting naught: it is illumined by two hundred suns.
- چشم من پرست و سیرست و غنی ** از دو صد خورشید دارد روشنی
- Oh, the rook of (other) kings is (but) a pawn in my sight, (and yet) a demi-horse enraptures me without any justification.
- ای رخ شاهان بر من بیذقی ** نیم اسپم در رباید بی حقی
- The Creator of witchery has bewitched me: ’tis a (Divine) attraction (exerted upon me), not the peculiar virtues of this (horse).”
- جادوی کردست جادو آفرین ** جذبه باشد آن نه خاصیات این
- He recited the Fátiha and uttered many a lá hawl, (but) the Fátiha (only) increased the passion in his breast,
- فاتحه خواند و بسی لا حول کرد ** فاتحه‌ش در سینه می‌افزود درد