که چرا من تابع غیری شوم ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم

که چرا من تابع غیری شوم ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم 4845

Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”

لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت

(Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—

هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی

“Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).

این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند

Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.

رفته سوی آسمان با جلال ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال

By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,

صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را 4850

And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham;

که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال

For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,

هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط

(And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.

کوری او رست طفل وحی کش ** ماند خون‌های دگر در گردنش

(But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.

از پدر یابید آن ملک ای عجب ** تا غرورش داد ظلمات نسب

Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?