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ذکر جسمانه خیال ناقص است ** وصف شاهانه از آنها خالص است
- Bodily commemoration is an imperfect fancy: the Kingly attributes are remote from those (forms of speech).
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شاه را گوید کسی جولاه نیست ** این چه مدح است این مگر آگاه نیست
- If any one say of a king, “He is not a weaver,” what praise is this? He (that person) is surely ignorant.
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انکار کردن موسی علیه السلام بر مناجات شبان
- How Moses, on whom be peace, took offence at the prayer of the shepherd.
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دید موسی یک شبانی را به راه ** کاو همیگفت ای خدا و ای اله 1720
- Moses saw a shepherd on the way, who was saying, “O God who choosest (whom Thou wilt),
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تو کجایی تا شوم من چاکرت ** چارقت دوزم کنم شانه سرت
- Where art Thou, that I may become Thy servant and sew Thy shoes and comb Thy head?
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جامهات شویم شپشهایت کشم ** شیر پیشت آورم ای محتشم
- That I may wash Thy clothes and kill Thy lice and bring milk to Thee, O worshipful One;
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دستکت بوسم بمالم پایکت ** وقت خواب آید بروبم جایکت
- That I may kiss Thy little hand and rub Thy little foot, (and when) bedtime comes I may sweep Thy little room,
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ای فدای تو همه بزهای من ** ای به یادت هیهی و هیهای من
- O Thou to whom all my goats be a sacrifice, O Thou in remembrance of whom are my cries of ay and ah!”
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این نمط بیهوده میگفت آن شبان ** گفت موسی با کی است این ای فلان 1725
- The shepherd was speaking foolish words in this wise. Moses said, “Man, to whom is this (addressed)?”
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گفت با آن کس که ما را آفرید ** این زمین و چرخ از او آمد پدید
- He answered, “To that One who created us; by whom this earth and sky were brought to sight.”
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گفت موسی های خیرهسر شدی ** خود مسلمان ناشده کافر شدی
- “Hark!” said Moses, “you have become very backsliding (depraved); indeed you have not become a Moslem, you have become an infidel.