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2820-2829

  • لیک آن کاول وزیر شه بده ست ** محتسب کردن سبب فعل بد است‏ 2820
  • But he that was first the king's vizier—evil-doing is the cause of making him a police inspector.

  • چون ترا شه ز آستانه پیش خواند ** باز سوی آستانه باز راند
  • When the King has called you from the threshold into His presence, and again has driven you back to the threshold,

  • تو یقین می‏دان که جرمی کرده‏ای ** جبر را از جهل پیش آورده‏ای‏
  • Know for sure that you have committed a sin and in folly have brought forward (pleaded) compulsion (as the cause),

  • که مرا روزی و قسمت این بده ست ** پس چرا دی بودت آن دولت به دست‏
  • Saying, “This was my (predestined) portion and lot.” (But) then, why was that good luck in your hands yesterday?

  • قسمت خود خود بریدی تو ز جهل ** قسمت خود را فزاید مرد اهل‏
  • Through folly you yourself have cut off your lot. The worthy man augments his lot.

  • قصه‏ی منافقان و مسجد ضرار ساختن ایشان‏
  • The story of the Hypocrites and their building the Mosque of Opposition.

  • یک مثال دیگر اندر کژروی ** شاید ار از نقل قرآن بشنوی‏ 2825
  • It is fit if you will hearken to another parable concerning perversity (taken) from the narrative in the Qur’án.

  • این چنین کژ بازیی در جفت و طاق ** با نبی می‏باختند اهل نفاق‏
  • The Hypocrites played against the Prophet (just) such a crooked game at odd and even (as was played by Iblís against Mu‘áwiya),

  • کز برای عز دین احمدی ** مسجدی سازیم و بود آن مرتدی‏
  • Saying, “Let us build a mosque for the glory of the Mohammedan religion”; and that was (really) apostasy (on their part).

  • این چنین کژ بازیی می‏باختند ** مسجدی جز مسجد او ساختند
  • Such a crooked game were they playing: they built a mosque other than his mosque.

  • فرش و سقف و قبه‏اش آراسته ** لیک تفریق جماعت خواسته‏
  • They constructed (well) its floor and roof and dome, but they desired to disunite the (Moslem) community.