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 مران‌‌ 870

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.

بانگ آمد کار چون اینجا رسید ** پای دار ای سگ که قهر ما رسید

When the matter reached this pass, a shout came—“Hold thy foot (stop), O cur! For Our vengeance is come.”

بعد از آن آتش چهل گز بر فروخت ** حلقه گشت و آن جهودان را بسوخت‌‌

After that, the fire blazed up forty ells high, became a ring, and consumed those Jews.

اصل ایشان بود آتش ابتدا ** سوی اصل خویش رفتند انتها

From fire was their origin in the beginning: they went (back) to their origin in the end.

هم ز آتش زاده بودند آن فریق ** جزوها را سوی کل باشد طریق‌‌ 875

That company were born of fire: the way of particulars is towards the universal.

آتشی بودند مومن سوز و بس ** سوخت خود را آتش ایشان چو خس‌‌

They were only a fire to consume the true believers: their fire consumed itself like rubbish.

آن که بوده ست امه الهاویه ** هاویه آمد مر او را زاویه‌‌

He whose mother is Háwiya (Hell-fire)—Háwiya shall become his cell (abode).