- (Moved) by sorrows (pains of love) they began to make inquiry, saying, “Who in the world, we wonder, is she of whom this is the portrait?”
- در تفحص آمدند از اندهان ** صورت کی بود عجب این در جهان
- After much inquiry in (the course of their) travel, a Shaykh endowed with insight disclosed the mystery,
- بعد بسیاری تفحص در مسیر ** کشف کرد آن راز را شیخی بصیر
- Not (verbally) by way of the ear, but (silently) by inspiration (derived) from Reason: to him (all) mysteries were unveiled.
- نه از طریق گوش بل از وحی هوش ** رازها بد پیش او بی روی‌پوش
- He said, “This is the portrait of (her who is) an object of envy to the Pleiades: this is the picture of the Princess of China.
- گفت نقش رشک پروینست این ** صورت شه‌زاده‌ی چینست این
- She is hidden like the spirit and like the embryo: she is (kept) in a secret bower and palace. 3790
- هم‌چو جان و چون جنین پنهانست او ** در مکتم پرده و ایوانست او
- Neither man nor woman is admitted to her (presence): the King has concealed her on account of her fascinations.
- سوی او نه مرد ره دارد نه زن ** شاه پنهان کرد او را از فتن
- The King has a (great) jealousy for her (good) name, so that not even a bird flies above her roof.”
- غیرتی دارد ملک بر نام او ** که نپرد مرغ هم بر بام او
- Alas for the heart that such an insane passion has stricken: may no one feel a passion like this!
- وای آن دل کش چنین سودا فتاد ** هیچ کس را این چنین سودا مباد
- This is the retribution due to him who sowed the seed of ignorance and held light and cheap that (precious) counsel,
- این سزای آنک تخم جهل کاشت ** وآن نصیحت را کساد و سهل داشت
- And put a (great) trust in his own management, saying, “By dint of intelligence I will carry my affair to success.” 3795
- اعتمادی کرد بر تدبیر خویش ** که برم من کار خود با عقل پیش