لیک بی‌اصلی نباشدت این جزا ** بی‌گناهی کی برنجاند خدا
But this punishment is not without an origin: how should God inflict pain without any sin (having been committed)?
آنچ اصلست و کشنده‌ی آن شی است ** گر نمی‌ماند بوی هم از وی است
That which is the origin and bringer-on of that (painful) thing—if it (the painful thing) does not resemble it, still it is (produced) from it.
پس بدان رنجت نتیجه‌ی زلتیست ** آفت این ضربتت از شهوتیست
Know, then, that thy pain is the result of some lapse (and that) this woe with which thou art stricken arises from some lust.
گر ندانی آن گنه را ز اعتبار ** زود زاری کن طلب کن اغتفار
If thou canst not discern that sin by means of consideration, at once make humble entreaty and seek pardon (from God).
سجده کن صد بار می‌گوی ای خدا ** نیست این غم غیر درخورد و سزا 3990
Prostrate thyself a hundred times and keep saying, “O God, this pain is nothing but my due and desert.
ای تو سبحان پاک از ظلم و ستم ** کی دهی بی‌جرم جان را درد و غم
O Thou who art transcendent in holiness and free from (all) injustice and oppression, how shouldst Thou inflict grief and pain upon the soul when it has not sinned?
من معین می‌ندانم جرم را ** لیک هم جرمی بباید گرم را
I do not know my sin definitely, but (I know that) there must be a sin (to account) for the anguish.
چون بپوشیدی سبب را ز اعتبار ** دایما آن جرم را پوشیده دار
Since Thou hast concealed the cause from my consideration, do Thou always keep my sin concealed (from others);
که جزا اظهار جرم من بود ** کز سیاست دزدیم ظاهر شود
For it would be retribution to disclose my sin, so that my thievery (rascality) should be made manifest by punishment.”
عزم کردن شاه چون واقف شد بر آن خیانت کی بپوشاند و عفو کند و او را به او دهد و دانست کی آن فتنه جزای او بود و قصد او بود و ظلم او بر صاحب موصل کی و من اساء فعلیها و ان ربک لبالمرصاد و ترسیدن کی اگر انتقام کشد آن انتقام هم بر سر او آید چنانک این ظلم و طمع بر سرش آمد
How the monarch, on being acquainted with that act of treachery, resolved to conceal and pardon it and give her (the slave-girl) to him (the captain), and recognised that the tribulation was a punishment inflicted on him and was (the result of) his attempt (to obtain the slave-girl) and the wrong which he had done to the lord of Mawsil; for “and whoso doeth evil, it is against himself” and “lo, thy Lord is on the watch”; and how he feared that, if he should avenge himself, the vengeance would recoil on his own head, as this injustice and greed (of his) had (already) recoiled upon him.
شاه با خود آمد استغفار کرد ** یاد جرم و زلت و اصرار کرد 3995
The monarch came to himself. He asked pardon (of God) and confessed his sin and lapse and persistence (in wrong-doing).