- You urged the steed of ambition towards the stars: you did not acknowledge Adam who was worshipped (by the angels). 540
- اسب همت سوی اختر تاختی ** آدم مسجود را نشناختی
- After all, you are a son of Adam. O degenerate! how long will you regard lowness as nobility?
- آخر آدم زاده‌‌ای ای ناخلف ** چند پنداری تو پستی را شرف
- How long will you say, “I will conquer a whole world, I will make this world full of myself”?
- چند گویی من بگیرم عالمی ** این جهان را پر کنم از خود همی
- If the world should be filled with snow from end to end, the glow of the sun would melt it with a single look.
- گر جهان پر برف گردد سربه‌‌سر ** تاب خور بگدازدش با یک نظر
- God by a single spark (of His mercy) maketh naught his (the vizier's) burden (of sin) and (the burden) of a hundred viziers and a hundred thousand.
- وزر او و صد وزیر و صد هزار ** نیست گرداند خدا از یک شرار
- He maketh the essence of that (false) imagination to be wisdom; He maketh the essence of that poisoned water to be a (wholesome) drink. 545
- عین آن تخییل را حکمت کند ** عین آن زهر آب را شربت کند
- That which raises doubt He turneth into certainty; He maketh loving kindnesses grow from the causes of hatred.
- آن گمان انگیز را سازد یقین ** مهرها رویاند از اسباب کین
- He cherisheth Abraham in the fire; He turneth fear into security of spirit.
- پرورد در آتش ابراهیم را ** ایمنی روح سازد بیم را
- By His burning (destroying) of secondary causes I am distraught; in (my) fancies of Him I am like a sophist (sceptic or agnostic).
- از سبب سوزیش من سودایی‌‌ام ** در خیالاتش چو سوفسطایی‌‌ام
- How the vizier started another plan to mislead the (Christian) folk.
- مکر دیگر انگیختن وزیر در اضلال قوم
- The vizier formed in his mind another plan: he abandoned preaching and sat alone in seclusion.
- مکر دیگر آن وزیر از خود ببست ** وعظ را بگذاشت و در خلوت نشست