گفت چون قلبی و نقدی دم زنند ** که تو قلبی من تکویم ارجمند

He (the other) said, ‘When a base and a genuine coin boast, saying (to each other), “Thou art base; I am good and valuable,”

هست آتش امتحان آخرین ** کاندر آتش در فتند این دو قرین

Fire is the final test: (the test is) that these two rivals should be dropped into the fire.

عام و خاص از حالشان عالم شوند ** از گمان و شک سوی ایقان روند

(Then) the vulgar and the elect will become acquainted with their (real) state and will advance from opinion and doubt to certain knowledge.

آب و آتش آمد ای جان امتحان ** نقد و قلبی را که آن باشد نهان

Water and fire, O (dear) soul, are the test for the pure and the base coin that is hidden.

تا من و تو هر دو در آتش رویم ** حجت باقی حیرانان شویم 2860

Let me and thee, both of us, go into the fire and become a lasting proof for the perplexed.

تا من و تو هر دو در بحر اوفتیم ** که من و تو این کره را آیتیم

Let me and thee, both of us, fall into the sea, for thou and I are a sign unto this multitude.’

هم‌چنان کردند و در آتش شدند ** هر دو خود را بر تف آتش زدند

Even so they did and entered the fire: both cast themselves upon the heat of the fire.

از خدا گوینده مرد مدعی ** رست و سوزید اندر آتش آن دعی

The God-proclaiming man who engaged in controversy was saved, while that bastard (impostor) was burnt in the fire.

از مذن بشنو این اعلام را ** کوری افزون‌روان خام را

Hear from the muezzin this announcement, to the confusion of the foolish transgressors,

که نسوزیدست این نام از اجل ** کش مسمی صدر بودست و اجل 2865

That this name (Mohammed) has not been burnt (destroyed) by Death, since its bearer was a prince and most noble.