که مرا افسانه می‌پنداشتید ** تخم طعن و کافری می‌کاشتید

که مرا افسانه می‌پنداشتید ** تخم طعن و کافری می‌کاشتید 4285

Who were deeming me to be an idle tale and were sowing the seed of raillery and infidelity,

خود بدیدیت آنک طعنه می‌زدیت ** که شما فانی و افسانه بدیت

(Now) ye yourselves have seen (the truth of) what ye were scoffing at, (namely), that ye were perishable and idle tale.

من کلام حقم و قایم به ذات ** قوت جان جان و یاقوت زکات

I am the Word of God and subsistent through the (Divine) Essence; I am the Food of the soul of the soul. And (I am) the Jacinth of purity.

نور خورشیدم فتاده بر شما ** لیک از خورشید ناگشته جدا

I am the Sunlight that hath fallen upon you, but I have not become separate from the Sun.

نک منم ینبوع آن آب حیات ** تا رهانم عاشقان را از ممات

Lo, I am the Fountain of the Water of Life, that I may deliver the lovers (of God) from death.

گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعه‌ای بر گورتان حق ریختی 4290

If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.”

نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم

Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.

مثل زدن در رمیدن کره‌ی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان

Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.

آنک فرمودست او اندر خطاب ** کره و مادر همی‌خوردند آب

As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were drinking the water.

می‌شخولیدند هر دم آن نفر ** بهر اسپان که هلا هین آب خور

Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!”

آن شخولیدن به کره می‌رسید ** سر همی بر داشت و از خور می‌رمید

(The noise of) that bawling reached the foal: it was lifting its head and refusing to drink.