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169-178

  • گفت عمر حاش لله که خدا ** بار اول قهر بارد در جزا
  • ‘God forfend,’ said ‘Umar, ‘that God should inflict severe punishment the first time.

  • بارها پوشد پی اظهار فضل ** باز گیرد از پی اظهار عدل 170
  • He covers up (the sin) many times in order to manifest His grace; then again, He chastises (the sinner) in order to manifest His justice,

  • تا که این هر دو صفت ظاهر شود ** آن مبشر گردد این منذر شود
  • To the end that both these attributes may be displayed, and the former be hope-inspiring and the latter deterrent.’

  • بارها زن نیز این بد کرده بود ** سهل بگذشت آن و سهلش می‌نمود
  • The woman, too, had committed this wickedness many times: it passed lightly (over her) and seemed light to her.

  • آن نمی‌دانست عقل پای‌سست ** که سبو دایم ز جو ناید درست
  • The feeble intelligence (which she had) was unaware that the pitcher does not for ever come (back) whole from the brook.

  • آنچنانش تنگ آورد آن قضا ** که منافق را کند مرگ فجا
  • That (Divine) destiny brought her to such straits as sudden death does (in the case of) the (religious) hypocrite,

  • نه طریق و نه رفیق و نه امان ** دست کرده آن فرشته سوی جان 175
  • (When there is) neither way (of escape) nor comrade (to help) nor (hope of) quarter, (and when) the Angel (of Death) has put out his hand to (seize) the soul.

  • آنچنان کین زن در آن حجره جفا ** خشک شد او و حریفش ز ابتلا
  • (Such is the state of the hypocrite), even as this woman in that chamber of iniquity was paralysed, she and her companion, by the tribulation.

  • گفت صوفی با دل خود کای دو گبر ** از شما کینه کشم لیکن به صبر
  • The Súfí said to himself, ‘O ye two miscreants, I will take vengeance on you, but with patience.

  • لیک نادانسته آرم این نفس ** تا که هر گوشی ننوشد این جرس
  • (I will not act in haste) but at this moment I will feign ignorance, that every ear may not hear this bell.’