- Húd admonished them, saying, “O prideful folk, this wind will tear out of your hands the skirt (to which ye are clinging). 4680
- هود دادی پند که ای پر کبر خیل ** بر کند از دستتان این باد ذیل
- The wind is God's army, and (only) in hypocrisy (deceit) has it embraced you for a few days.
- لشکر حق است باد و از نفاق ** چند روزی با شما کرد اعتناق
- Secretly it is loyal to its Creator: when the appointed term arrives, the wind will throw up its hands (and desert you).”
- او به سر با خالق خود راستست ** چون اجل آید بر آرد باد دست
- See how the wind passes through the mouth, coming and going at every moment in advance and retreat.
- باد را اندر دهن بین رهگذر ** هر نفس آیان روان در کر و فر
- The throat and teeth are in no danger from it; (but) when God commands, it attacks the teeth;
- حلق و دندانها ازو آمن بود ** حق چو فرماید به دندان در فتد
- (And then) a (mere) atom of wind becomes (like) a mountain and heavy, and toothache keeps him (the sufferer) miserable and ill. 4685
- کوه گردد ذرهای باد و ثقیل ** درد دندان داردش زار و علیل
- This is the same wind that used to pass by harmlessly: it was the life of the crops and it became the death of the crops.
- این همان بادست که امن میگذشت ** بود جان کشت و گشت او مرگ کشت
- The hand of the person who (formerly) kissed thy hand—in the moment of anger that hand becomes a mace.
- دست آن کس که بکردت دستبوس ** وقت خشم آن دست میگردد دبوس
- He (who has toothache) cries from his soul, “O Lord! O Lord! Take away this wind, O Thou whose aid is besought (by all)!
- یا رب و یا رب بر آرد او ز جان ** که ببر این باد را ای مستعان
- O mouth, thou wert heedless of this wind: (now) go and betake thyself to asking pardon of God with utter abasement.”
- ای دهان غافل بدی زین باد رو ** از بن دندان در استغفار شو