To keep their hands off the accursed infidels became a duty for the sake of delivering the true believers.
قصهی عهد حدیبیه بخوان ** کف ایدیکم تمامت زان بدان4575
Read the story of the covenant of Hudaybiya: (it was) He (who) restrained your hands (from them): from that (saying) perceive (what is the meaning of) the whole (story).
نیز اندر غالبی هم خویش را ** دید او مغلوب دام کبریا
Even in victory he (the Prophet) deemed himself subdued by the snare of Divine Majesty.
زان نمیخندم من از زنجیرتان ** که بکردم ناگهان شبگیرتان
“’Tis not because I suddenly marched against you before dawn (and took you captive) that I laugh at your chains;
زان همیخندم که با زنجیر و غل ** میکشمتان سوی سروستان و گل
I laugh because I am dragging you in chains and shackles to the cypress garden and the roses (of Paradise).
ای عجب کز آتش بیزینهار ** بسته میآریمتان تا سبزهزار
O wonder, that we are bringing you in bonds from the merciless fire to the place abounding in verdure;
از سوی دوزخ به زنجیر گران ** میکشمتان تا بهشت جاودان4580
With heavy chains I am dragging you from the direction of Hell to the everlasting Paradise.”
هر مقلد را درین ره نیک و بد ** همچنان بسته به حضرت میکشد
Every blind follower in this Way, be he good or evil, He (God) is dragging, bound like that, into His Presence.
جمله در زنجیر بیم و ابتلا ** میروند این ره بغیر اولیا
All go along this Way in the chains of fear and tribulation, except the saints.
میکشند این راه را بیگاروار ** جز کسانی واقف از اسرار کار
They are dragged along this Way reluctantly, except those persons who are acquainted with the mysteries of the (Divine) action.