باز میزارید کای علام سر ** مر مرا مگذار بر کفران مصر
Again he was crying in supplication, “O Thou who knowest the inmost consciousness, do not leave me persisting in unbelief!
دل به دستم نیست همچون دید چشم ** ور نه دل را سوزمی این دم به خشم
My heart is not in my control, as (my) eyesight (is); else I would at this moment burn my heart in anger.”
اندر این اندیشه خوابش در ربود ** مسجد ایشانش پر سرگین نمود2895
(Whilst he was) in this thought, slumber seized him. To him (dreaming), their mosque seemed full of dung:
سنگهاش اندر حدث جای تباه ** میدمید از سنگها دود سیاه
A corrupted place, its stones (steeped) in filth: from the stones floated up black smoke.
دود در حلقش شد و حلقش بخست ** از نهیب دود تلخ از خواب جست
The smoke went into his throat and made it smart: terrified by the bitter smoke, he sprang from sleep.
در زمان در رو فتاد و میگریست ** کای خدا اینها نشان منکری است
Forthwith he fell on his face and wept, saying, “O God, these things are the sign of (their) disbelief.
خلم بهتر از چنین حلم ای خدا ** که کند از نور ایمانم جدا
Wrath (against them) is better, O God, than such forbearance (as mine), which separates me from the light of Faith.”
گر بکاوی کوشش اهل مجاز ** تو به تو گنده بود همچون پیاز2900
If you scrutinise the labour of them that follow falsehood, (you will se that) it is stinking, coat upon coat, like an onion—
هر یکی از یکدیگر بیمغزتر ** صادقان را یک ز دیگر نغزتر
Every one (of their efforts) more pithless than another, (while), in the case of the sincere, (every effort) is more excellent than the other.
صد کمر آن قوم بسته بر قبا ** بهر هدم مسجد اهل قبا
Those folk (the Hypocrites) tied a hundred belts on their mantles in order to destroy the Mosque of the people of Qubá—
همچو آن اصحاب فیل اندر حبش ** کعبهای کردند حق آتش زدش
Even as the Lords of the Elephant (who abode) in Abyssinia made a Ka‘ba, (but) God set it afire;
قصد کعبه ساختند از انتقام ** حالشان چون شد فرو خوان از کلام
(And then) they (the Abyssinians) made an attempt on the Ka‘ba in revenge: read from the Word (of God) how they fared!
مر سیه رویان دین را خود جهیز ** نیست الا حیلت و مکر و ستیز2905
The reprobates of the Religion have indeed no equipment but cunning and deceit and contentiousness.
هر صحابی دید ز آن مسجد عیان ** واقعه تا شد یقینشان سر آن
Every Companion saw plainly (in sleep) some vision of that Mosque, so that the secret (purpose) of it became to them certain knowledge.
واقعات ار باز گویم یک به یک ** پس یقین گردد صفا بر اهل شک
If I should relate the visions, one by one, then the purity (of the Companions) would become certain to them that doubt;
لیک میترسم ز کشف رازشان ** نازنینانند و زیبد نازشان
But I am afraid of revealing their mystery: they are the disdainful loved ones (of God), and disdain beseems them.
شرع بیتقلید میپذرفتهاند ** بیمحک آن نقد را بگرفتهاند
They have received the (religious) Law (directly from God) without mechanical imitation (of others): they have taken that (unadulterated) coin without (applying) the touchstone.
حکمت قرآن چو ضالهی مومن است ** هر کسی در ضالهی خود موقن است2910
The Wisdom of the Qur’án is like the true believer's stray camel: every one has certain (intuitive) knowledge of his own stray.
قصهی آن شخص که اشتر ضالهی خود میجست و میپرسید
Story of the person who was seeking after his stray camel and inquiring about it.
اشتری گم کردی و جستیش چست ** چون بیابی چون ندانی کان تست
(If) you have lost a camel and sought it busily, how should you not know,when you find it, that it is yours?
ضاله چه بود ناقهای گم کردهای ** از کفت بگریخته در پردهای
What is the stray? You have lost a she-camel: (she has) fled from your herd into a veil (of concealment).
آمده در بار کردن کاروان ** اشتر تو ز آن میان گشته نهان
The caravaneers have begun to load, (but) your camel has disappeared from the midst (of the caravan).
میدوی این سو و آن سو خشک لب ** کاروان شد دور و نزدیک است شب
You are running to and fro with parched lips; the caravan is (now) far away, and night is near.
رخت مانده بر زمین در راه خوف ** تو پی اشتر دوان گشته به طوف2915
Your baggage is left on the ground, (lying) on the road of peril, (whilst) you are running about in search of the camel,
کای مسلمانان که دیده ست اشتری ** جسته بیرون بامداد از آخوری
Crying, “O Moslems, who has seen a camel which this morning escaped from a stable?
هر که بر گوید نشان از اشترم ** مژدگانی میدهم چندین درم
Whoever will tell (me) a clue to my camel, I will give so many dirhems as a reward (for the information).”