Muntakhab al-tawarikh 22.3.5

22.3.5

By thy order it is that the stomachless ant is hungry in the way.
By this bounty it is that the motionless hair upon the body is satisfied.
He who did not turn away his head from your door even by a hair's breadth, the ant, although tongueless, began to praise him like the lizard.
When he like the fish became sleepless and fasting in devotion to you then without doubt with the sword of the finger he split the moon into two parts like a hair.
He was a sign like the true dawn, hair-splitting in his speech. His followers were as successful as ants in opposing the scorpions of religion.
The silvery body of the seven heavens, would become (black) like ants, when he cast aside the covering from his dark locks.
For the ants of religion he carried away so much provision that there remained on the point of each hair an evidence of that bounty for ever and ever.
Oh thou Creator, I have made every hair a tongue, but yet like an ant I complain in my heart of my voicelessness to sing thy praise.
If thou hadst illumined the eye of the ant like the thread of hair, without the permission of thy mercy this caravan would not have passed.
I am like an ant in water, or like a hair in the fire, because this sugar-scattering mind of mine is not fit for this relation.
I have the foot of effort in the stirrup of devotion to you like the ant; as long as one single hair remains of me I will not desist from this endeavour.