در غریبی خوار و درویش و خلق ** که ندانستی سپاس ما و حق

(Thou art) in exile, despised and poor and threadbare, since thou didst not acknowledge gratitude and obligation to me.”

گفت حاشا که بود با آن ملیک ** در خداوندی کسی دیگر شریک

He (Moses) said, “Far be it that any other person should be a partner in Lordship with that King.

واحد اندر ملک او را یار نی ** بندگانش را جز او سالار نی 2325

(He is) One: He hath no associate in Kingship; His slaves have no master but Him.

نیست خلقش را دگر کس مالکی ** شرکتش دعوی کند جز هالکی

His creatures have no other owner: does any one claim partnership with Him except one that is doomed to perish?

نقش او کردست و نقاش من اوست ** غیر اگر دعوی کند او ظلم‌جوست

He hath made the design, He is my Designer; if another lay claim (to it), he is a seeker of iniquity.

تو نتوانی ابروی من ساختن ** چون توانی جان من بشناختن

Thou canst not fashion my eyebrow: how canst thou know my soul?

بلک آن غدار و آن طاغی توی ** که کنی با حق دعوی دوی

Nay, ’tis thou who art the traitor and the insolent one, for thou claimest duality with God.

گر بکشتم من عوانی را به سهو ** نه برای نفس کشتم نه به لهو 2330

If I inadvertently killed a ruffian, I killed (him) neither for self's sake nor in sport.

من زدم مشتی و ناگاه اوفتاد ** آنک جانش خود نبد جانی بداد

I struck (him) a blow with my fist, and he suddenly fell: one who really had no soul gave up a soul.

من سگی کشتم تو مرسل‌زادگان ** صدهزاران طفل بی‌جرم و زیان

I killed a cur: thou the children of him who was sent (by God)—hundreds of thousands of innocent and harmless babes—