- In the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk these thoughts were raging like a lion (rushing) through the jungles.
- در عماد الملک این اندیشه‌ها ** گشته جوشان چون اسد در بیشه‌ها
- His exterior (person) stood before the Sultan, (but) his soaring spirit was in the meadows of the Unseen. 3435
- ایستاده پیش سلطان ظاهرش ** در ریاض غیب جان طایرش
- Like the angels, he was momently being intoxicated with fresh draughts (of spiritual wine) in the realm of Alast;
- چون ملایک او به اقلیم الست ** هر دمی می‌شد به شرب تازه مست
- Inwardly (merry as) a wedding-feast, but outwardly like a man filled with sorrow; a delectable world (concealed) in a tomb-like body.
- اندرون سور و برون چون پر غمی ** در تن هم‌چون لحد خوش عالمی
- He was in this (state of) bewilderment and waiting to see what would appear from the (world of) things occult and mysterious,
- او درین حیرت بد و در انتظار ** تا چه پیدا آید از غیب و سرار
- (When) at that time the officers brought the horse along into the presence of the Khwárizmsháh.
- اسپ را اندر کشیدند آن زمان ** پیش خوارمشاه سرهنگان کشان
- Verily beneath this azure sky there was no (other) colt like that in (tallness and comeliness of) figure and in fleetness. 3440
- الحق اندر زیر این چرخ کبود ** آن‌چنان کره به قد و تگ نبود
- Its colour (splendid appearance) dazzled every eye: (all would exclaim), “Hail to the (steed) born of the lightning and the moon!”
- می‌ربودی رنگ او هر دیده را ** مرحب آن از برق و مه زاییده را
- It moved as swiftly as the moon and Mercury: you might say that its fodder was the sarsar wind, not barley.
- هم‌چو مه هم‌چون عطارد تیزرو ** گوییی صرصر علف بودش نه جو
- The moon traverses the expanse of heaven in one night during a single journey and course.
- ماه عرصه‌ی آسمان را در شبی ** می‌برد اندر مسیر و مذهبی