- (Go anywhere) except to one fortress, the name of which is ‘the robber of reason’: it makes the coat tight for wearers of the tiara.
- غیر آن یک قلعه نامش هش‌ربا ** تنگ آرد بر کله‌داران قبا
- For God's sake, for God's sake, keep far away from that castle adorned with pictures, and beware of the peril! 3635
- الله الله زان دز ذات الصور ** دور باشید و بترسید از خطر
- The front and back of its towers and its roof and floor are all (covered with) images and decorations and pictures,
- رو و پشت برجهاش و سقف و پست ** جمله تمثال و نگار و صورتست
- Like the chamber of Zalíkhá (which she made) full of pictures in order that Joseph should look upon her willy-nilly.
- هم‌چو آن حجره‌ی زلیخا پر صور ** تا کند یوسف بناکامش نظر
- Since Joseph would not look at her, she cunningly filled the room with portraits of herself,
- چونک یوسف سوی او می‌ننگرید ** خانه را پر نقش خود کرد آن مکید
- So that, wherever the fair-cheeked (youth) looked, he might see her face without having the power to choose.
- تا به هر سو که نگرد آن خوش‌عذار ** روی او را بیند او بی‌اختیار
- The peerless God hath made (all) the six directions a theatre for the display of His signs to the clairvoyant, 3640
- بهر دیده‌روشنان یزدان فرد ** شش جهت را مظهر آیات کرد
- In order that, whatever animal or plant they look upon, they may feed on the meadows of Divine Beauty.
- تا بهر حیوان و نامی که نگزند ** از ریاض حسن ربانی چرند
- Hence He said unto the company (of mystics), ‘Wheresoever ye turn, His Face is there.
- بهر این فرمود با آن اسپه او ** حیث ولیتم فثم وجهه
- If in thirst ye drink some water from a cup, ye are beholding God within the water.’
- از قدح‌گر در عطش آبی خورید ** در درون آب حق را ناظرید