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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.
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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.
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یاد کن لطفی که کردم آن صبوح ** با شما از حفظ در کشتی نوح
- Remember the kindness which I did unto you that morn by protecting (you) in the ship (ark) of Noah.
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پیله بابایانتان را آن زمان ** دادم از طوفان و از موجش امان
- At that time I gave to the stock of your fathers security from the Flood and from its waves.
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آب آتش خو زمین بگرفته بود ** موج او مر اوج که را میربود 335
- Water, like fire in (its deadly) nature, had covered the earth: its waves were sweeping away the highest peaks of the mountains.
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حفظ کردم من نکردم ردتان ** در وجود جد جد جدتان
- I protected you, I did not spurn you, in the bodies of the ancestors of the ancestors of your ancestors.
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چون شدی سر پشت پایت چون زنم ** کارگاه خویش ضایع چون کنم
- Now that you have come to the head, how should I smite the sole of your foot? How should I let My workshop go to waste?
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چون فدای بیوفایان میشوی ** از گمان بد بدان سو میروی
- How are you becoming devoted to the unfaithful and going in that direction from ill thoughts (of Me)?
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من ز سهو و بیوفاییها بری ** سوی من آیی گمان بد بری
- I am clear of negligence and infidelities, (yet) you come to Me and think evil.
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این گمان بد بر آنجا بر که تو ** میشوی در پیش همچون خود دوتو 340
- Think this evil thought against the place where you cringe before one like yourself.