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2180-2189

  • هم شب و هم ابر و هم موج عظیم ** این سه تاریکی و از غرقاب بیم 2180
  • (There were) both night and clouds and huge waves: these three darknesses, and (also) fear of (being drowned in) the whirlpool.

  • تند بادی همچو عزرائیل خاست ** موجها آشوفت اندر چپ و راست
  • A fierce wind, like ‘Azrá’íl, arose; the waves tossed on left and right.

  • اهل کشتی از مهابت کاسته ** نعره وا ویلها برخاسته
  • The people in the ship were faint with terror: cries of woe had arisen,

  • دستها در نوحه بر سر می‌زدند ** کافر و ملحد همه مخلص شدند
  • And in lamentation they were beating their heads with their hands: infidel and deist—they all had become sincere (in devotion to God),

  • با خدا با صد تضرع آن زمان ** عهدها و نذرها کرده بجان
  • Making heartfelt promises and vows to God with a hundred humble entreaties in that hour.

  • سر برهنه در سجود آنها که هیچ ** رویشان قبله ندید از پیچ پیچ 2185
  • Bare-headed in the prostrate attitude (of Divine worship) were those whose faces, because of (their) perversity, had never seen the qibla at all.

  • گفته که بی‌فایده‌ست این بندگی ** آن زمان دیده در آن صد زندگی
  • They (formerly) said, “This worship of God is useless”; (but) in that hour (of despair) they saw a hundred lives (precious advantages) therein.

  • از همه اومید ببریده تمام ** دوستان و خال و عم بابا و مام
  • They had entirely abandoned hope of all—of friends and maternal and paternal uncles and father and mother.

  • زاهد و فاسق شد آن دم متقی ** همچو در هنگام جان کندن شقی
  • At that moment ascetic and reprobate (alike) had become God-fearing as a wicked man at the time of the death-agony.

  • نه ز چپشان چاره بود و نه ز راست ** حیله‌ها چون مرد هنگام دعاست
  • Neither on the left nor on the right was there any help for them: when (all) expedients are dead, (then) is the time to invoke God.