تو بفرمودی که حق را یاد کن ** زانک حق من نمی‌گردد کهن

Thou didst command, saying, “Remember God, because My right shall never grow old.

یاد کن لطفی که کردم آن صبوح ** با شما از حفظ در کشتی نوح

Remember the kindness which I did unto you that morn by protecting (you) in the ship (ark) of Noah.

پیله بابایانتان را آن زمان ** دادم از طوفان و از موجش امان

At that time I gave to the stock of your fathers security from the Flood and from its waves.

آب آتش خو زمین بگرفته بود ** موج او مر اوج که را می‌ربود 335

Water, like fire in (its deadly) nature, had covered the earth: its waves were sweeping away the highest peaks of the mountains.

حفظ کردم من نکردم ردتان ** در وجود جد جد جدتان

I protected you, I did not spurn you, in the bodies of the ancestors of the ancestors of your ancestors.

چون شدی سر پشت پایت چون زنم ** کارگاه خویش ضایع چون کنم

Now that you have come to the head, how should I smite the sole of your foot? How should I let My workshop go to waste?

چون فدای بی‌وفایان می‌شوی ** از گمان بد بدان سو می‌روی

How are you becoming devoted to the unfaithful and going in that direction from ill thoughts (of Me)?

من ز سهو و بی‌وفاییها بری ** سوی من آیی گمان بد بری

I am clear of negligence and infidelities, (yet) you come to Me and think evil.

این گمان بد بر آنجا بر که تو ** می‌شوی در پیش همچون خود دوتو 340

Think this evil thought against the place where you cringe before one like yourself.

بس گرفتی یار و همراهان زفت ** گر ترا پرسم که کو گویی که زفت

You got many powerful friends and companions: if I ask you, ‘Where (is so and- so)?’ you will say, ‘He is gone.’