- (Now) once again a little of its much shall be told—the description (as it were) of a single limb of the elephant.
- حملهی دیگر ز بسیارش قلیل ** گفته آید شرح یک عضوی ز پیل
- Listen to (the tale of) Hárút and Márút, O thou to whose face we are (devoted) slaves and servants. 800
- گوش کن هاروت را ماروت را ** ای غلام و چاکران ما روت را
- They (Hárút and Márút) were intoxicated with the spectacle of God and with the marvels of the King's gradual temptation (of them).
- مست بودند از تماشای اله ** وز عجایبهای استدراج شاه
- Such intoxication arises (even) from God's gradual temptation, so that (you may judge) what intoxications are wrought by the ascension to God.
- این چنین مستیست ز استدراج حق ** تا چه مستیها کند معراج حق
- The bait in His snare produced intoxication like this: what things, (then), can the table of His bounty reveal!
- دانهی دامش چنین مستی نمود ** خوان انعامش چهها داند گشود
- They were drunken and freed from the noose: they were uttering rapturous cries in the fashion of lovers;
- مست بودند و رهیده از کمند ** های هوی عاشقانه میزدند
- (But) in their road there was one ambush and trial: its mighty wind would sweep the mountain away like straw. 805
- یک کمین و امتحان در راه بود ** صرصرش چون کاه که را میربود
- The (Divine) trial was turning them upside down, (but) how should one that is drunken have consciousness of these things?
- امتحان میکردشان زیر و زبر ** کی بود سرمست را زینها خبر
- To him pit and open field are one, to him dungeon and pit are a pleasant path to tread.
- خندق و میدان بپیش او یکیست ** چاه و خندق پیش او خوش مسلکیست
- The mountain-goat runs up that high mountain for the sake of (getting) some harmless food.
- آن بز کوهی بر آن کوه بلند ** بر دود از بهر خوردی بیگزند