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  • وام‌دار شرح این نکته شدم ** مهلتم ده معسرم زان تن زدم
  • I have become a debtor for (I owe) the explanation of this topic. Give me time, I am destitute; on that account I keep silence.

  • اقتدا کردن قوم از پس دقوقی
  • How the company followed the leadership of Daqúqí.

  • پیش در شد آن دقوقی در نماز ** قوم همچون اطلس آمد او طراز 2140
  • Daqúqí advanced to perform the prayer: the company were (as) the satin robe and he (as) the embroidered border.

  • اقتدا کردند آن شاهان قطار ** در پی آن مقتدای نامدار
  • Those (spiritual) kings followed his leadership, (standing) in a row behind that renowned exemplar.

  • چونک با تکبیرها مقرون شدند ** همچو قربان از جهان بیرون شدند
  • When they pronounced the takbírs, they went forth from this world, like a sacrifice.

  • معنی تکبیر اینست ای امام ** کای خدا پیش تو ما قربان شدیم
  • O Imám, the (real) meaning of the takbír is this: “We have become a sacrifice, O God, before Thee.”

  • وقت ذبح الله اکبر می‌کنی ** همچنین در ذبح نفس کشتنی
  • At the moment of slaughtering (the victim) you say Alláh akbar: even so (do) in slaughtering the fleshly soul which ought to be killed.

  • تن چو اسمعیل و جان همچون خلیل ** کرد جان تکبیر بر جسم نبیل 2145
  • The body is like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael), and the spirit like Abraham: the spirit has pronounced the takbír over the noble body.

  • گشت کشته تن ز شهوتها و آز ** شد به بسم الله بسمل در نماز
  • By lusts and desires the body was (merely) killed, (but) by (the words) bismilláh (uttered) in the ritual prayer it was sacrificed.

  • چون قیامت پیش حق صفها زده ** در حساب و در مناجات آمده
  • Whilst performing the prayer (they were) drawn up in ranks before God, as at the Resurrection, and engaged in self-examination and orisons,

  • ایستاده پیش یزدان اشک‌ریز ** بر مثال راست‌خیز رستخیز
  • Standing in God's presence and shedding tears, like one who rises erect on (the Day of) rising from the dead.

  • حق همی‌گوید چه آوردی مرا ** اندرین مهلت که دادم من ترا
  • (On that Day) God will say, “What hast thou produced for Me during this term of respite which I gave thee?

  • عمر خود را در چه پایان برده‌ای ** قوت و قوت در چه فانی کرده‌ای 2150
  • In what (work) hast thou brought thy life to its end? In what hast thou consumed thy food and strength?

  • گوهر دیده کجا فرسوده‌ای ** پنج حس را در کجا پالوده‌ای
  • Where hast thou dimmed the lustre of thine eye? Where hast thou dissipated thy five senses?

  • چشم و هوش و گوش و گوهرهای عرش ** خرج کردی چه خریدی تو ز فرش
  • Thou hast expended eyes and ears and intellect and the pure celestial substances: what hast thou purchased from the earth?

  • دست و پا دادمت چون بیل و کلند ** من ببخشیدم ز خود آن کی شدند
  • I gave thee hands and feet as spade and mattock (for tilling the soil of good works). When did those become (existent) of themselves?”

  • همچنین پیغامهای دردگین ** صد هزاران آید از حضرت چنین
  • Even so hundreds of thousands of such sorrowful messages come from the Lord.

  • در قیام این کفتها دارد رجوع ** وز خجالت شد دوتا او در رکوع 2155
  • At the time of standing (in prayer) these words return (from God to the worshipper), and from shame he is bent double in the genuflexion.

  • قوت استادن از خجلت نماند ** در رکوع از شرم تسبیحی بخواند
  • From shame the power of standing remains not, and from abashment he recites a litany of glorification while his knees are bowed.

  • باز فرمان می‌رسد بردار سر ** از رکوع و پاسخ حق بر شمر
  • Then comes the (Divine) command, “Lift up thy head from the genuflexion and tell over (what thou hast to say in) answer to God.”

  • سر بر آرد از رکوع آن شرمسار ** باز اندر رو فتد آن خام‌کار
  • The shamefaced one lifts up his head from the genuflexion; then that man whose works are unripe (imperfect) falls on his face.

  • باز فرمان آیدش بردار سر ** از سجود و وا ده از کرده خبر
  • Again the (Divine) command comes to him, “Lift up thy head from the prostration and give an account of thy deeds.”

  • سر بر آرد او دگر ره شرمسار ** اندر افتد باز در رو همچو مار 2160
  • Once more the shamefaced one lifts up his head, and falls again on his face, (flat) as a snake.

  • باز گوید سر بر آر و باز گو ** که بخواهم جست از تو مو بمو
  • Again He says, “Lift up thy head and relate (thy deeds), for I will inquire of thee (concerning them), hair by hair.”

  • قوت پا ایستادن نبودش ** که خطاب هیبتی بر جان زدش
  • He hath no power to stand on foot, since the words of awe addressed to him have smitten his soul;

  • پس نشیند قعده زان بار گران ** حضرتش گوید سخن گو با بیان
  • So he sits down because of that heavy burden. (Then) the Lord says to him, “Speak plainly!