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  • گفت من عقلم رسول ذوالجلال ** حجةالله‌ام امانم از ضلال
  • He said, “I am Reason, the messenger of the Almighty: I am the proof of God, I am the protection against error.”

  • گفت نی خامش رها کن های هو ** نسبت و نام قدیمت را بگو 2310
  • “Nay,” said he, “hush, cease from (this ecstatic) outcry: tell (me) thy ancient lineage and name.”

  • گفت که نسبت مر از خاکدانش ** نام اصلم کمترین بندگانش
  • “My lineage,” he said, “(is derived) from His dust-pit; my original name is ‘the meanest of His slaves.’

  • بنده‌زاده‌ی آن خداوند وحید ** زاده از پشت جواری و عبید
  • I am the slave-born (slave) of that unique Lord—born of the (womb and) loins of slaves female and male.

  • نسبت اصلم ز خاک و آب و گل ** آب و گل را داد یزدان جان و دل
  • My original lineage (is derived) from earth and water and clay: God gave unto water and clay a soul and heart.

  • مرجع این جسم خاکم هم به خاک ** مرجع تو هم به خاک ای سهمناک
  • To earth also will return this earthen body of mine; to earth thou likewise wilt return, O terrible one.

  • اصل ما و اصل جمله سرکشان ** هست از خاکی و آن را صد نشان 2315
  • Our origin and the origin of all the proud is from a piece of earth, and (there are) a hundred signs thereof;

  • که مدد از خاک می‌گیرد تنت ** از غذایی خاک پیچد گردنت
  • For thy body receives support (sustenance) from the earth, and from earthly nutriment thy neck is wrapped in folds (of flesh).

  • چون رود جان می‌شود او باز خاک ** اندر آن گور مخوف سهمناک
  • When the spirit departs, it (the body) will again become earth in the dreaded and horrible grave.

  • هم تو و هم ما و هم اشباه تو ** خاک گردند و نماند جاه تو
  • Both thou and we and all who resemble thee will become earth, and thy power will remain no more.”

  • گفت غیر این نسب نامیت هست ** مر ترا آن نام خود اولیترست
  • He (Pharaoh) said, “Thou hast a name other than this lineage: truly that name is more proper for thee—

  • بنده‌ی فرعون و بنده‌ی بندگانش ** که ازو پرورد اول جسم و جانش 2320
  • ‘Slave of Pharaoh and slave of his slaves,’ (a slave) whose body and soul were first nurtured by him (Pharaoh),

  • بنده‌ی یاغی طاغی ظلوم ** زین وطن بگریخته از فعل شوم
  • A hostile, insolent and unrighteous slave, who fled from this country on account of an ill-omened deed.

  • خونی و غداری و حق‌ناشناس ** هم برین اوصاف خود می‌کن قیاس
  • Thou art a murderer and treacherous and ungrateful: from just these qualities, forsooth, form a judgement (as to the rest).

  • در غریبی خوار و درویش و خلق ** که ندانستی سپاس ما و حق
  • (Thou art) in exile, despised and poor and threadbare, since thou didst not acknowledge gratitude and obligation to me.”

  • گفت حاشا که بود با آن ملیک ** در خداوندی کسی دیگر شریک
  • He (Moses) said, “Far be it that any other person should be a partner in Lordship with that King.

  • واحد اندر ملک او را یار نی ** بندگانش را جز او سالار نی 2325
  • (He is) One: He hath no associate in Kingship; His slaves have no master but Him.

  • نیست خلقش را دگر کس مالکی ** شرکتش دعوی کند جز هالکی
  • His creatures have no other owner: does any one claim partnership with Him except one that is doomed to perish?

  • نقش او کردست و نقاش من اوست ** غیر اگر دعوی کند او ظلم‌جوست
  • He hath made the design, He is my Designer; if another lay claim (to it), he is a seeker of iniquity.

  • تو نتوانی ابروی من ساختن ** چون توانی جان من بشناختن
  • Thou canst not fashion my eyebrow: how canst thou know my soul?

  • بلک آن غدار و آن طاغی توی ** که کنی با حق دعوی دوی
  • Nay, ’tis thou who art the traitor and the insolent one, for thou claimest duality with God.

  • گر بکشتم من عوانی را به سهو ** نه برای نفس کشتم نه به لهو 2330
  • If I inadvertently killed a ruffian, I killed (him) neither for self's sake nor in sport.

  • من زدم مشتی و ناگاه اوفتاد ** آنک جانش خود نبد جانی بداد
  • I struck (him) a blow with my fist, and he suddenly fell: one who really had no soul gave up a soul.

  • من سگی کشتم تو مرسل‌زادگان ** صدهزاران طفل بی‌جرم و زیان
  • I killed a cur: thou the children of him who was sent (by God)—hundreds of thousands of innocent and harmless babes—

  • کشته‌ای و خونشان در گردنت ** تا چه آید بر تو زین خون خوردنت
  • Hast killed, and their blood is on thy neck: consider what shall come upon thee because of this blood-drinking of thine.