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  • کس چه می‌داند ز من جز اندکی  ** از هزاران جرم و بد فعلم یکی 
  • What does any one know of me but a little—(what but) one of my thousand sins and evil deeds?

  • من همی دانم و آن ستار من  ** جرمها و زشتی کردار من 
  • I know, and He who draws a veil (of concealment) over me (knows) my sins and the wickedness of my conduct.

  • اول ابلیسی مرا استاد بود  ** بعد از آن ابلیس پیشم باد بود  2305
  • At first an Iblís was my teacher; afterwards Iblís was (mere) wind in comparison with me.

  • حق بدید آن جمله را نادیده کرد  ** تا نگردم در فضیحت روی‌زرد 
  • God saw all that (iniquity), (but) made as though He saw it not, lest I should be openly dishonoured by its exposure.

  • باز رحمت پوستین دوزیم کرد  ** توبه‌ی شیرین چو جان روزیم کرد 
  • Moreover, (the Divine) Mercy exercised the furrier's craft on me and bestowed on me a repentance sweet as life.

  • هر چه کردم جمله ناکرده گرفت  ** طاعت ناکرده آورده گرفت 
  • Whatever (ill deeds) I had done, it took them as not having been done; and my undone (acts of) obedience it took as having been performed.

  • هم‌چو سرو و سوسنم آزاد کرد  ** هم‌چو بخت و دولتم دلشاد کرد 
  • It made me free (pure and noble) as the cypress and the lily; it made me glad of heart as fortune and felicity.

  • نام من در نامه‌ی پاکان نوشت  ** دوزخی بودم ببخشیدم بهشت  2310
  • It inscribed my name in the register of the righteous: I was one doomed to Hell; it gave me Paradise.

  • آه کردم چون رسن شد آه من  ** گشت آویزان رسن در چاه من 
  • (When) I cried ‘Alas,’ my ‘Alas’ became a rope, and the rope was let down into my well.

  • آن رسن بگرفتم و بیرون شدم  ** شاد و زفت و فربه و گلگون شدم 
  • I clutched that rope and climbed out: I became glad and strong and stout and rosy.