دل به دستم نیست همچون دید چشم ** ور نه دل را سوزمی این دم به خشم‏

My heart is not in my control, as (my) eyesight (is); else I would at this moment burn my heart in anger.”

اندر این اندیشه خوابش در ربود ** مسجد ایشانش پر سرگین نمود 2895

(Whilst he was) in this thought, slumber seized him. To him (dreaming), their mosque seemed full of dung:

سنگهاش اندر حدث جای تباه ** می‏دمید از سنگها دود سیاه‏

A corrupted place, its stones (steeped) in filth: from the stones floated up black smoke.

دود در حلقش شد و حلقش بخست ** از نهیب دود تلخ از خواب جست‏

The smoke went into his throat and made it smart: terrified by the bitter smoke, he sprang from sleep.

در زمان در رو فتاد و می‏گریست ** کای خدا اینها نشان منکری است‏

Forthwith he fell on his face and wept, saying, “O God, these things are the sign of (their) disbelief.

خلم بهتر از چنین حلم ای خدا ** که کند از نور ایمانم جدا

Wrath (against them) is better, O God, than such forbearance (as mine), which separates me from the light of Faith.”

گر بکاوی کوشش اهل مجاز ** تو به تو گنده بود همچون پیاز 2900

If you scrutinise the labour of them that follow falsehood, (you will se that) it is stinking, coat upon coat, like an onion—

هر یکی از یکدیگر بی‏مغزتر ** صادقان را یک ز دیگر نغزتر

Every one (of their efforts) more pithless than another, (while), in the case of the sincere, (every effort) is more excellent than the other.

صد کمر آن قوم بسته بر قبا ** بهر هدم مسجد اهل قبا

Those folk (the Hypocrites) tied a hundred belts on their mantles in order to destroy the Mosque of the people of Qubá—

همچو آن اصحاب فیل اندر حبش ** کعبه‏ای کردند حق آتش زدش‏

Even as the Lords of the Elephant (who abode) in Abyssinia made a Ka‘ba, (but) God set it afire;