Know that to praise an idol for the purpose of ensnaring the vulgar is just like (the Prophet’s reference to) “the most exalted Cranes.”
خواندش در سوره‌ی والنجم زود ** لیک آن فتنه بد از سوره نبود 1530
He recited it those words) quickly in the Súra (entitled) Wa’l-Najm, but it was a temptation (of the Devil), it was not (really) part of the Súra.
جمله کفار آن زمان ساجد شدند ** هم سری بود آنک سر بر در زدند
Thereupon all the infidels prostrated themselves (in worship): ‘twas a mystery (of Divine Wisdom), too, that they knocked their heads upon the door.
بعد ازین حرفیست پیچاپیچ و دور ** با سلیمان باش و دیوان را مشور
After this there is a perplexing and abstruse argument stay with Solomon and do not stir up the demons!
هین حدیث صوفی و قاضی بیار ** وان ستمکار ضعیف زار زار
Hark, relate the story of the Súfí and the Cadi and the offender who was (so) feeble and wretchedly ill.
گفت قاضی ثبت العرش ای پسر ** تا برو نقشی کنم از خیر و شر
The Cadi said (to the Súfí), “Make the roof firm, O son, in order that I may decorate it with good and evil.
کو زننده کو محل انتقام ** این خیالی گشته است اندر سقام 1535
Where is the assailant? Where is that which is subject to vengeance? This man in (consequence of) sickness has become a (mere) phantom.
شرع بهر زندگان و اغنیاست ** شرع بر اصحاب گورستان کجاست
The law is for the living and self-sufficient: where (how) is the law (binding) upon the occupants of the graveyard?”
آن گروهی کز فقیری بی‌سرند ** صد جهت زان مردگان فانی‌تراند
The class (of men) who are headless (selfless) because of (their spiritual) poverty are in a hundred respects more naughted than those dead (and buried).
مرده از یک روست فانی در گزند ** صوفیان از صد جهت فانی شدند
The dead man is naughted (only) from one point of view, namely), as regards loss (of bodily life); the Súfís have been naughted in a hundred respects.