عاقل از سر بنهد این هستی و باد ** چون شنید انجام فرعونان و عاد
The wise man will put off from his head (lay aside) this self-existence and wind (of vanity), since he heard (what was) the end of the Pharaohs and ‘Ád;
ور بننهد دیگران از حال او ** عبرتی گیرند از اضلال او
And if he do not put it off, others will take warning from what befell him in consequence of his being misguided.
تهدید کردن نوح علیه السلام مر قوم را که با من مپیچید که من رو پوشم در میان پس به حقیقت با خدای میپیچید ای مخذولان
How Noah, on whom be peace, threatened his people, saying, “Do not struggle with me, for I am (only) a veil: ye are really struggling with God (who is) within this (veil), O God-forsaken men!”
گفت نوح ای سرکشان من من نیام ** من ز جان مرده به جانان میزیام
Noah said, “O ye headstrong ones, I am not I: I am dead to the (animal) soul, I am living through the Soul of souls.
چون بمردم از حواس بو البشر ** حق مرا شد سمع و ادراک و بصر3125
Inasmuch as I am dead to the senses of the father of mankind (human sense perceptions), God has become my hearing and perception and sight.
چون که من من نیستم این دم ز هوست ** پیش این دم هر که دم زد کافر اوست
Since I am not I, this breath (of mine) is from Him: in the presence of this breath if any one breathes (a word) he is an infidel.”
هست اندر نقش این روباه شیر ** سوی این روبه نشاید شد دلیر
In the form of this fox there is the lion: ’tis not fitting to advance boldly towards this fox.
گر ز روی صورتش مینگروی ** غرهی شیران از او مینشنوی
Unless thou believe in him from his exterior aspect (accept him in the form in which he appears), thou wilt not hear from him the lions' roar.
گر نبودی نوح را از حق یدی ** پس جهانی را چرا بر هم زدی
Unless Noah had had a hand (a powerful aid) from God, why should he have cast a whole world into confusion?
صد هزاران شیر بود او در تنی ** او چو آتش بود و عالم خرمنی3130
He was hundreds of thousands of lions in a single body; he was like fire, and the world (like) a stack.
چون که خرمن پاس عشر او نداشت ** او چنان شعله بر آن خرمن گماشت
Forasmuch as the stack neglected (to pay) the tithe due to him, he launched such a flame against that stack.