- Bounty produces heedlessness, and thanksgiving alertness: hunt after bounty with the snare of thanksgiving to the King.
- نعمت آرد غفلت و شکر انتباه ** صید نعمت کن بدام شکر شاه
- The bounty of thanksgiving will make you contented and princely, so that you will bestow a hundred bounties on the poor.
- نعمت شکرت کند پرچشم و میر ** تا کنی صد نعمت ایثار فقیر
- You will eat your fill of the viands and dessert of God, so that hunger and begging will depart from you.
- سیر نوشی از طعام و نقل حق ** تا رود از تو شکمخواری و دق
- How the unbelievers stopped the prophets, on whom be peace, from giving admonition and brought forward Necessitarian arguments.
- منع کردن انبیا را از نصیحت کردن و حجت آوردن جبریانه
- The people (of Sabá) said, “O admonishers, what ye have said is enough, if there be any one in this village. 2900
- قوم گفتند ای نصوحان بس بود ** اینچ گفتید ار درین ده کس بود
- God hath set a lock upon our hearts; none can prevail against the Creator.
- قفل بر دلهای ما بنهاد حق ** کس نداند برد بر خالق سبق
- That Artist made the picture of us to be this: this will not be altered by talking.
- نقش ما این کرد آن تصویرگر ** این نخواهد شد بگفت و گو دگر
- A hundred years you may tell the pebble to become a ruby, a hundred years you may tell the old to become new;
- سنگ را صد سال گویی لعل شو ** کهنه را صد سال گویی باش نو
- You may tell earth to assume the qualities of water, you may tell water to become honey or milk—
- خاک را گویی صفات آب گیر ** آب را گویی عسل شو یا که شیر
- (’Tis all in vain): He is the Creator of the heavens and the heavenly ones, the Creator of water and earth and earthly beings. 2905
- خالق افلاک او و افلاکیان ** خالق آب و تراب و خاکیان
- To heaven He gave its circling motion and its purity; to (the mixed) water and earth its dark appearance and its (power of) growth.
- آسمان را داد دوران و صفا ** آب و گل را تیره رویی و نما