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گاه جنگش با رسول و مطبخی ** گاه خشمش با شهنشاه سخی 1915
- Now his quarrel (was) with the messenger and the steward, now his anger (was directed) against the generous emperor.
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همچو فرعونی که موسی هشته بود ** طفلکان خلق را سر میربود
- You are like Pharaoh, who had left Moses (alone) and was taking off the heads of the people's babes:
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آن عدو در خانهی آن کور دل ** او شده اطفال را گردن گسل
- The enemy (Moses) was in the house of that blind-hearted man, (while) he (outside) was cutting the necks of the children.
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تو هم از بیرون بدی با دیگران ** واندرون خوش گشته با نفس گران
- You also are bad (malign) to others outside, while you have become complaisant to the grievous self (carnal soul) within.
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خود عدوت اوست قندش میدهی ** وز برون تهمت به هر کس مینهی
- It is your enemy indeed, (yet) you are giving it candy, while outside you are accusing every one.
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همچو فرعونی تو کور و کوردل ** با عدو خوش بیگناهان را مذل 1920
- You are like Pharaoh, blind and blind-hearted: complaisant to your enemy and treating the guiltless with ignominy.
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چند فرعونا کشی بیجرم را ** مینوازی مر تن پر غرم را
- How long, O (imitator of) Pharaoh, will you slay the innocent and pamper your noxious body?
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عقل او بر عقل شاهان میفزود ** حکم حق بیعقل و کورش کرده بود
- His understanding was superior to that of (other) kings: God's ordainment had made him without understanding and blind.
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مهر حق بر چشم و بر گوش خرد ** گر فلاطونست حیوانش کند
- God's seal upon the eye and ear of the intelligence makes him (the intelligent man) an animal, (even) if he is a Plato.
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حکم حق بر لوح میآید پدید ** آنچنان که حکم غیب بایزید
- God's ordainment comes into view on the tablet (of the heart) in such wise as Báyazíd's prediction of the hidden (future event).
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شنیدن شیخ ابوالحسن رضی الله عنه خبر دادن ابویزید را و بود او و احوال او
- How Shaykh Abu ’l-Hasan, may God be well-pleased with him, heard Báyazíd's announcement of his coming into existence and of what should happen to him.