ز آتش شهوت نسوزد اهل دین ** باقیان را برده تا قعر زمین
The religious are not burned by the fire of lust which bore all the rest down to the bottom of the earth.
موج دریا چون به امر حق بتاخت ** اهل موسی را ز قبطی واشناخت
The waves of the sea, when they charged on by God's command, discriminated the people of Moses from the Egyptians.
خاک قارون را چو فرمان در رسید ** با زر و تختش به قعر خود کشید
The earth, when the (Divine) command came, drew Qárún (Korah) with his gold and throne into its lowest depth.
آب و گل چون از دم عیسی چرید ** بال و پر بگشاد مرغی شد پرید865
The water and clay, when it fed on the breath of Jesus, spread wings and pinions, became a bird, and flew.
هست تسبیحت بخار آب و گل ** مرغ جنت شد ز نفخ صدق دل
Your glorification (of God) is an exhalation from the water and clay (of your body): it became a bird of Paradise through the breathing (into it) of your heart's sincerity.
کوه طور از نور موسی شد به رقص ** صوفی کامل شد و رست او ز نقص
Mount Mount Sinai, from (seeing) the radiance of Moses, began to dance, became a perfect Súfí, and was freed from blemish.
چه عجب گر کوه صوفی شد عزیز ** جسم موسی از کلوخی بود نیز
What wonder if the mountain became a venerable Súfí? The body of Moses also was (formed) from a piece of clay.
طنز و انکار کردن پادشاه جهود و قبول نکردن نصیحت خاصان خویش
How the Jewish king scoffed and denied and would not accept the counsel of his intimates.
این عجایب دید آن شاه جهود ** جز که طنز و جز که انکارش نبود
The king of the Jews beheld these marvellous things, (but) he had naught (to say) except mockery and denial.
ناصحان گفتند از حد مگذران ** مرکب استیزه را چندین مران870
His counsellors said, “Do not let (this injustice) go beyond bounds, do not drive the steed of obstinacy so far.”
ناصحان را دست بست و بند کرد ** ظلم را پیوند در پیوند کرد
He handcuffed the counsellors and confined them, he committed one injustice after another.