شرح عشق ار من بگویم بر دوام ** صد قیامت بگذرد و آن ناتمام
If I should continue to describe Love, a hundred Resurrections would pass, and it (my description would still be) incomplete;
زانک تاریخ قیامت را حدست ** حد کجا آنجا که وصف ایزدست 2190
For there is a limit to the date of the Resurrection, but what limit can there be where the Divine attributes are (concerned)?
عشق را پانصد پرست و هر پری ** از فراز عرش تا تحت‌الثری
Love hath five hundred wings, and every wing (extends) from above the empyrean to beneath the earth.
زاهد با ترس می‌تازد به پا ** عاشقان پران‌تر از برق و هوا
The timorous ascetic runs on foot; the lovers (of God) fly more quickly than the lightning and the wind.
کی رسند این خایفان در گرد عشق ** که آسمان را فرش سازد درد عشق
How should those fearful ones overtake Love?—for Love's passion makes the (lofty) heaven its carpet—
جز مگر آید عنایتهای ضو ** کز جهان و زین روش آزاد شو
Unless perchance the favours of the (Divine) Light come and say, “Become free from the world and from this wayfaring;
از قش خود وز دش خود باز ره ** که سوی شه یافت آن شهباز ره 2195
Escape from thine own qush and dush, for (only) the royal falcon has found the way to the King.”
این قش و دش هست جبر و اختیار ** از ورای این دو آمد جذب یار
This “qush and dush” is necessity and free-will: the pull of the Beloved (who draws you to Himself) transcends these twain.
چون رسید آن زن به خانه در گشاد ** بانگ در در گوش ایشان در فتاد
When the wife arrived home, she opened the door: the sound of the door fell on their ears.
آن کنیزک جست آشفته ز ساز ** مرد بر جست و در آمد در نماز
The maid jumped up in consternation and disorder; the man jumped up and began to say his prayers.
زن کنیزک را پژولیده بدید ** درهم و آشفته و دنگ و مرید
The wife saw that the maid was dishevelled and confused and excited and witless and unmanageable.
شوی خود را دید قایم در نماز ** در گمان افتاد زن زان اهتزاز 2200
She saw her husband standing up (and engaged) in the ritual prayer: the wife was made suspicious by (all) that agitation.
شوی را برداشت دامن بی‌خطر ** دید آلوده‌ی منی خصیه و ذکر
Periculi nulla ratione habita, mariti laciniam sustulit: testiculos et penem videt semine inquinatos. [She raised (her) husband’s skirt without risk; she saw (his) testicles and penis soiled with sperm.]
از ذکر باقی نطفه می‌چکید ** ران و زانو گشت آلوده و پلید
Seminis quod reliquum erat e pene stillabat: femur genuque inquinata et spurca evaserant. [Remnants of sperm were dripping from (his) penis; his thighs and knees had become soiled and filthy.]
بر سرش زد سیلی و گفت ای مهین ** خصیه‌ی مرد نمازی باشد این
Caput ejus colapho percussit et “O vilissime,” inquit, “num hujusmodi sunt testiculi viri preces sollennes rite facientis? [She slapped at his head and said, “O despicable (one), are these the testicles of a man of prayer?]
لایق ذکر و نمازست این ذکر ** وین چنین ران و زهار پر قذر
Num iste penis cum Dei commemoratione precibusque sollennibus conveniens est? Num femur tale et inguen sordibus plenum. [Is this (soiled) penis worthy of commemoration (of God) and ritual prayer, or these thighs and groin full of filth?]
نامه‌ی پر ظلم و فسق و کفر و کین ** لایقست انصاف ده اندر یمین 2205
Deal equitably (answer fairly): is a scroll (a register of actions) full of injustice and wickedness and unbelief and enmity fit (to be placed) in the right hand?
گر بپرسی گبر را کین آسمان ** آفریده‌ی کیست وین خلق و جهان
If you ask an infidel, “By whom were this heaven and these creatures and this world created?”
گوید او کین آفریده‌ی آن خداست ** که آفرینش بر خدایی‌اش گواست
He will reply that they were created by the Lord to whose Lordship the Creation bears witness.
کفر و فسق و استم بسیار او ** هست لایق با چنین اقرار او
Do his unbelief and great wickedness and wrong-doing fit (properly agree with) such a confession by him?
هست لایق با چنین اقرار راست ** آن فضیحتها و آن کردار کاست
Do those infamous deeds and that vicious conduct go fitly with such a true confession?
فعل او کرده دروغ آن قول را ** تا شد او لایق عذاب هول را 2210
His actions have given the lie to his words, so that he has become fit for (deserving of) the awful torment.
روز محشر هر نهان پیدا شود ** هم ز خود هر مجرمی رسوا شود
On the Day of Resurrection every hidden thing will be made manifest: every sinner will be ignominiously exposed by himself.
دست و پا بدهد گواهی با بیان ** بر فساد او به پیش مستعان
His hands and feet will give evidence and declare his iniquity in the presence of Him whose help is sought.
دست گوید من چنین دزدیده‌ام ** لب بگوید من چنین پرسیده‌ام
His hand will say, “I have stolen such and such”; his lip will say, “I have asked such and such questions”;