حق تعالی فخر آورد از وفا ** گفت من اوفی بعهد غیرنا
The high God hath boasted of faithfulness: He hath said, “Who but I am most faithful in keeping a promise?”
بی‌وفایی دان وفا با رد حق ** بر حقوق حق ندارد کس سبق
Know that faithfulness (to others when it is accompanied) with rejection of God is unfaithfulness: no one hath precedence over (hath a prior claim to) God's rights.
حق مادر بعد از آن شد کان کریم ** کرد او را از جنین تو غریم325
Thy mother's right (only) arose after that Bounteous One had made her indebted (to Him) for thy embryo.
صورتی کردت درون جسم او ** داد در حملش ورا آرام و خو
He bestowed on thee a form within her body, He gave ease to her during pregnancy and accustomed her (to the burden).
همچو جزو متصل دید او ترا ** متصل را کرد تدبیرش جدا
She deemed thee as a part joined (to herself); His providence separated (from her) that which was joined.
حق هزاران صنعت و فن ساختست ** تا که مادر بر تو مهر انداختست
God hath prepared thousands of artifices and contrivances, so that thy mother hath thrown (her) love upon thee.
پس حق حق سابق از مادر بود ** هر که آن حق را نداند خر بود
Therefore God's right is prior to (that of) the mother: whoever does not recognise that right is an ass.
آنک مادر آفرید و ضرع و شیر ** با پدر کردش قرین آن خود مگیر330
(If thou deny it), do not even admit that He created mother, teat, and milk, and united her with the father!
ای خداوند ای قدیم احسان تو ** آنک دانم وانک نه هم آن تو
O Lord, O Thou whose beneficence is eternal, Thine is both that which I know and that which I know not.
تو بفرمودی که حق را یاد کن ** زانک حق من نمی‌گردد کهن
Thou didst command, saying, “Remember God, because My right shall never grow old.