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خیز ای نمرود پر جوی از کسان ** نردبانی نایدت زین کرکسان
- Arise, O (thou who resemblest) Nimrod, and seek wings from (holy) personages: thou wilt not get any ladder from these vultures.
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عقل جزوی کرکس آمد ای مقل ** پر او با جیفه‌خواری متصل
- The vulture is the particular (discursive) reason, O poor (-spirited) one: its wings are connected with the eating of carrion;
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عقل ابدالان چو پر جبرئیل ** می‌پرد تا ظل سدره میل میل
- (But) the reason of the Abdál (exalted saints) is like the wings of Gabriel: it soars, mile by mile, up to the shade of the lote-tree (in Paradise).
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باز سلطانم گشم نیکوپیم ** فارغ از مردارم و کرکس نیم 4140
- (It says), “I am a royal falcon, I am fair and auspicious, I have nothing to do with carrion: I am not a vulture.
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ترک کرکس کن که من باشم کست ** یک پر من بهتر از صد کرکست
- Abandon the vulture, for I will be thy helper: a wing of mine is better for thee than a hundred vultures.”
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چند بر عمیا دوانی اسپ را ** باید استا پیشه را و کسپ را
- How long wilt thou gallop blindly? For (learning) a trade and business one needs a master.
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خویشتن رسوا مکن در شهر چین ** عاقلی جو خویش از وی در مچین
- Do not disgrace thyself in the capital of China: seek a sage and do not separate thyself from him.
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آن چه گوید آن فلاطون زمان ** هین هوا بگار و رو بر وفق آن
- Hark, whatever the Plato of the age bids thee do, give up thy self-will and act in accordance with that (counsel).
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جمله می‌گویند اندر چین به جد ** بهر شاه خویشتن که لم یلد 4145
- All (who dwell) in China are saying in zeal for (the glory of) their King, “He begetteth not.
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شاه ما خود هیچ فرزندی نزاد ** بلک سوی خویش زن را ره نداد
- Never in sooth has our King begotten a child; nay, he has not allowed a woman to approach him.”