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1011-1020

  • ظاهرش با باطنش در چالش‌اند ** لاجرم زین صبر نصرت می‌کشند
  • Its outward and its inward are in strife: necessarily they are drawing (Divine) aid from this patient endurance.

  • زین ترش‌رو خاک صورتها کنیم ** خنده‌ی پنهانش را پیدا کنیم
  • We make the forms (of existence) from this sour-faced earth: We make manifest its hidden laughter,

  • زانک ظاهر خاک اندوه و بکاست ** در درونش صد هزاران خنده‌هاست
  • For (though) outwardly the earth is (all) sorrow and tears, within it there are hundreds of thousands of laughters.

  • کاشف السریم و کار ما همین ** کین نهانها را بر آریم از کمین
  • We are the Revealer of the mystery, and Our work is just this, that We bring forth these hidden things from concealment.

  • گرچه دزد از منکری تن می‌زند ** شحنه آن از عصر پیدا می‌کند 1015
  • Although the thief is mute in denial (of his theft), the magistrate brings it to light by torture.

  • فضلها دزدیده‌اند این خاکها ** تا مقر آریمشان از ابتلا
  • These (diverse) earths have stolen (Our) favours, so that through affliction We may bring them to confess.

  • بس عجب فرزند کو را بوده است ** لیک احمد بر همه افزوده است
  • Many is the wondrous child that it (the earth) hath had, but Ahmad (Mohammed) hath surpassed them all.

  • شد زمین و آسمان خندان و شاد ** کین چنین شاهی ز ما دو جفت زاد
  • Earth and Heaven laugh and rejoice, saying, ‘From us two (who are) joined in wedlock such a king is born!’

  • می‌شکافد آسمان از شادیش ** خاک چون سوسن شده ز آزادیش
  • Heaven is bursting for joy of him; earth is become like the lily on account of his purity.

  • ظاهرت با باطنت ای خاک خوش ** چونک در جنگ‌اند و اندر کش‌مکش 1020
  • Since thy outward and thy inward, O fair earth, are at war and (engaged) in struggling (with each other)—