پیش اسرافیلگشته او عبوس ** میکند صد گونه شکل و چاپلوس 1640
With frowning (unsmiling) looks in the presence of Seraphiel, she is practising a hundred sorts of coquetry and blandishment,
که بحق ذات پاک ذوالجلال ** که مدار این قهر را بر من حلال
Saying, “By the truth of the holy essence of the Almighty, (I beseech thee), do not regard this violence to me as lawful!
من ازین تقلیب بویی میبرم ** بدگمانی میدود اندر سرم
I have a presentiment of this change: suspicious thoughts are running in my head.
تو فرشتهی رحمتی رحمت نما ** زانک مرغی را نیازارد هما
Thou art the Angel of mercy: show mercy, for the humá will not harm any (common) bird.
ای شفا و رحمت اصحاب درد ** تو همان کن کان دو نیکوکار کرد
O (thou who art) healing and mercy to the sorrowful, do thou the same as those two benefactors did.”
زود اسرافیل باز آمد به شاه ** گفت عذر و ماجرا نزد اله 1645
At once Seraphiel returned to the King: in God's presence he excused himself and told what had passed,
کز برون فرمان بدادی که بگیر ** عکس آن الهام دادی در ضمیر
Saying, “Outwardly (formally) Thou gavest (me) the command to take (the clay), (but) Thou didst inspire my conscience to do the opposite of that.
امر کردی در گرفتن سوی گوش ** نهی کردی از قساوت سوی هوش
The command to take Thou didst address to my ear, the prohibition against hardheartedness Thou didst address to my understanding.
سبق رحمت گشت غالب بر غضب ** ای بدیع افعال و نیکوکار رب
Mercy, being prior, prevailed over wrath, O Lord whose actions are incomparable and whose dealings are gracious.”
فرستادن عزرائیل ملک العزم و الحزم را علیهالسلام ببر گرفتن حفنهای خاک تا شود جسم آدم چالاک عیلهالسلام و الصلوة
The sending of Azrael, the Angel of firm resolution and strong mind, on whom be peace, to seize a handful of clay in order that the body of Adam, on whom be peace, might be quickened.
گفت یزدان زو عزرائیل را ** که ببین آن خاک پر تخییل را
Straightway God said to Azrael, “Behold the Earth full of vain imagination!