دیدشان در بند آن آگاه شیر ** می نظر کردند در وی زیر زیر

That wary Lion saw them in chains: (he saw them) looking askance at him,

تا همی خایید هر یک از غضب ** بر رسول صدق دندانها و لب 4475

So that each (of them) was gnashing his teeth and chewing his lips in anger against the veracious Prophet;

زهره نه با آن غضب که دم زنند ** زانک در زنجیر قهر ده‌منند

(But) notwithstanding that anger, they dare not utter a word, because they are in the ten-maund chain of violence.

می‌کشاندشان موکل سوی شهر ** می‌برد از کافرستانشان به قهر

Their custodian is marching them along to the city: he is taking them by force from the land of the infidels.

نه فدایی می‌ستاند نه زری ** نه شفاعت می‌رسد از سروری

(They say to each other), “He (the Prophet) will not accept any ransom or any gold: no intercession is coming from any prince.

رحمت عالم همی‌گویند و او ** عالمی را می‌برد حلق و گلو

He is called a mercy to the world, and he is cutting the throats and gullets of a (whole) world (of people).”

با هزار انکار می‌رفتند راه ** زیر لب طعنه‌زنان بر کار شاه 4480

With a thousand (feelings of) disbelief they marched along, railing under their breath at the actions of the (spiritual) king,

چاره‌ها کردیم و اینجا چاره نیست ** خود دل این مرد کم از خاره نیست

(Saying), “We remedied (our former troubles), but in this case there is no remedy: truly this man's heart is not inferior (in hardness) to a rock.

ما هزاران مرد شیر الپ ارسلان ** با دو سه عریان سست نیم‌جان

We, thousands of men brave as lions, (fighting) with two or three feeble and half-dead naked fellows,

این چنین درمانده‌ایم از کژرویست ** یا ز اخترهاست یا خود جادویست

Are left helpless like this: is it on account of (our) wrong-doing or (unlucky) stars, or is it sorcery?