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تو بزن یا ربنا آب طهور ** تا شود این نار عالم جمله نور
- Throw Thou, O Lord, the purifying water, that this world-fire may become wholly light.
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آب دریا جمله در فرمان تست ** آب و آتش ای خداوند آن تست 1335
- All the water of the sea is under Thy command; water and fire, O Lord, are Thine.
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گر تو خواهی آتش آب خوش شود ** ور نخواهی آب هم آتش شود
- If Thou willest, fire becomes sweet water; and if Thou willest not, even water becomes fire.
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این طلب در ما هم از ایجاد تست ** رستن از بی‌‌داد یا رب داد تست
- This search (aspiration) in us is also brought into existence by Thee; deliverance from iniquity is Thy gift, O Lord.
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بی‌‌طلب تو این طلب‌‌مان داده‌‌ای ** گنج احسان بر همه بگشاده‌‌ای
- Without (our) seeking Thou hast given us this search, Thou hast opened to all the treasure of (Thy) beneficence.
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مژده بردن خرگوش سوی نخجیران که شیر در چاه افتاد
- How the hare brought to the beasts of chase the news that the lion had fallen into the well.
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چون که خرگوش از رهایی شاد گشت ** سوی نخجیران دوان شد تا به دشت
- When the hare was gladdened by deliverance (from the lion), he began to run towards the beasts until (he came to) the desert.
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شیر را چون دید در چه کشته زار ** چرخ می‌‌زد شادمان تا مرغزار 1340
- Having seen the lion miserably slain in the well, he was skipping joyously all the way to the meadow,
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دست می‌‌زد چون رهید از دست مرگ ** سبز و رقصان در هوا چون شاخ و برگ
- Clapping his hands because he had escaped from the hand of Death; fresh and dancing in the air, like bough and leaf.
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شاخ و برگ از حبس خاک آزاد شد ** سر بر آورد و حریف باد شد
- Bough and leaf were set free from the prison of earth, lifted their heads, and became comrades of the wind;
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برگها چون شاخ را بشکافتند ** تا به بالای درخت اشتافتند
- The leaves, when they had burst (forth from) the bough, made haste to reach the top of the tree;