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  • تا نماند در جهان نصرانیی ** نی هویدا دین و نی پنهانیی‌‌
  • So that there may not remain a single Christian in the world, neither one whose religion is manifest nor one who is concealed.”

  • گفت ای شه گوش و دستم را ببر ** بینی‌‌ام بشکاف و لب در حکم مر
  • “O king,” said he, “cut off my ears and hands, rip my nose and lips by bitter (cruel) decree;

  • بعد از آن در زیر دار آور مرا ** تا بخواهد یک شفاعت‌‌گر مرا 345
  • Then bring me under the gallows, that an intercessor may plead for me.

  • بر منادی گاه کن این کار تو ** بر سر راهی که باشد چار سو
  • Do this deed in the place for (public) proclamation, on a highway where roads run in four directions.

  • آن گهم از خود بران تا شهر دور ** تا در اندازم در ایشان شر و شور
  • Then banish me from thy presence to a distant land, that I may cast mischief and confusion amongst them.

  • تلبیس وزیر با نصارا
  • How the vizier brought the Christians into doubt and perplexity.

  • پس بگویم من به سر نصرانی‌‌ام ** ای خدای راز دان می‌‌دانی‌‌ام‌‌
  • Then I will say (to them), ‘I am secretly a Christian. O God who knowest (all) things hidden, Thou knowest me.

  • شاه واقف گشت از ایمان من ** وز تعصب کرد قصد جان من‌‌
  • The king was informed of my (Christian) faith and from bigotry sought to take my life.

  • خواستم تا دین ز شه پنهان کنم ** آن که دین اوست ظاهر آن کنم‌‌ 350
  • I wished to hide my religion from the king and profess his religion,

  • شاه بویی برد از اسرار من ** متهم شد پیش شه گفتار من‌‌
  • (But) the king got a scent of my inmost beliefs, and my words were suspected (when I stood) before the king.

  • گفت گفت تو چو در نان سوزن است ** از دل من تا دل تو روزن است‌‌
  • He said, “Your words are like a needle in bread (specious but pernicious); there is a window between my heart and yours.

  • من از آن روزن بدیدم حال تو ** حال تو دیدم ننوشم قال تو
  • Through that window I have seen your (real) state: I see your state and will not heed your words.”

  • گر نبودی جان عیسی چاره‌‌ام ** او جهودانه بکردی پاره‌‌ام‌‌
  • Had not the spirit of Jesus been my aid, he would in Jewish fashion have torn me to pieces.

  • بهر عیسی جان سپارم سر دهم ** صد هزاران منتش بر خود نهم‌‌ 355
  • For Jesus' sake I would yield my life and give my head and lay on myself (confess) myriads of obligations to him.

  • جان دریغم نیست از عیسی و لیک ** واقفم بر علم دینش نیک نیک‌‌
  • I do not grudge Jesus my life, but full well am I versed in the knowledge of his religion.

  • حیف می‌‌آمد مرا کان دین پاک ** در میان جاهلان گردد هلاک‌‌
  • Grief was coming over me (it seemed to me a pity) that that holy religion should perish amongst those who are ignorant (of it).

  • شکر ایزد را و عیسی را که ما ** گشته‌‌ایم آن کیش حق را رهنما
  • Thanks be to God and to Jesus that I have become a guide to the true faith.

  • از جهود و از جهودی رسته‌‌ام ** تا به زناری میان را بسته‌‌ام‌‌
  • I have escaped from Jews and Judaism so (entirely) that I have bound my waist with a (Christian) girdle.

  • دور دور عیسی است ای مردمان ** بشنوید اسرار کیش او به جان‌‌ 360
  • The (present) epoch is the epoch of Jesus. O men, hearken with your souls unto the mysteries of his religion!’”

  • کرد با وی شاه آن کاری که گفت ** خلق حیران مانده ز ان مکر نهفت‌‌
  • The king did to him that deed (mutilation) which he had proposed: the people remained in amazement at that hidden (mysterious) plot.

  • راند او را جانب نصرانیان ** کرد در دعوت شروع او بعد از آن‌‌
  • He (the king) drove him away to the Christians. After that, he (the vizier) began to proselytise.

  • قبول کردن نصارا مکر وزیر را
  • How the Christians let themselves be duped by the vizier.

  • صد هزاران مرد ترسا سوی او ** اندک اندک جمع شد در کوی او
  • Myriads of Christian men gathered round him, little by little, in his abode,

  • او بیان می‌‌کرد با ایشان به راز ** سر انگلیون و زنار و نماز
  • (While) he secretly expounded to them the mysteries of Gospel and girdle and prayer.

  • او به ظاهر واعظ احکام بود ** لیک در باطن صفیر و دام بود 365
  • Outwardly he was a preacher of (religious) ordinances, but inwardly he was (as) the whistle and snare (of the fowler).

  • بهر این بعضی صحابه از رسول ** ملتمس بودند مکر نفس غول‌‌
  • On this account some Companions (of Mohammed) begged of the Prophet (that he would acquaint them with) the deceitfulness of the ghoul-like soul,

  • کاو چه آمیزد ز اغراض نهان ** در عبادتها و در اخلاص جان‌‌
  • Saying, “What of hidden selfish interests does it mingle in acts of worship and in pure spiritual devotion?”