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  • خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست‌‌
  • They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.

  • چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بنده‌‌ی غول نیست‌‌
  • Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).

  • گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر
  • (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.

  • چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ 3825
  • “Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in!

  • اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق‌‌
  • Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.

  • اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر
  • Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.

  • رسته‌‌ای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو
  • Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).

  • تو منی و من توام ای محتشم ** تو علی بودی علی را چون کشم‌‌
  • Thou art I and I am thou, O illustrious one: thou wert ‘Alí— how should I kill ‘Alí?

  • معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتی ** آسمان پیموده‌‌ای در ساعتی‌‌ 3830
  • Thou hast committed a sin better than any act of piety, thou hast traversed Heaven in a single moment.”

  • بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مرد ** نی ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد
  • Very fortunate (was) the sin which the man committed: do not rose-leaves spring from a thorn?

  • نی گناه عمر و قصد رسول ** می‌‌کشیدش تا به درگاه قبول‌‌
  • Was not the sin of ‘Umar and his attempt on (the life of) the Prophet leading him to the gate of acceptance?

  • نی به سحر ساحران فرعونشان ** می‌‌کشید و گشت دولت عونشان‌‌
  • Was not Pharaoh because of the magic of the magicians drawing them (to himself), and did not (spiritual) fortune come to their aid?

  • گر نبودی سحرشان و آن جحود ** کی کشیدیشان به فرعون عنود
  • Had it not been for their magic and denial (of Moses), who would have brought them to rebellious Pharaoh?

  • کی بدیدندی عصا و معجزات ** معصیت طاعت شد ای قوم عصات‌‌ 3835
  • How would they have seen the rod and the miracles? Disobedience (to God) became obedience, O disobedient people.

  • ناامیدی را خدا گردن زده است ** چون گنه مانند طاعت آمده ست‌‌
  • God hath smitten the neck of despair, inasmuch as sin has become like obedience.

  • چون مبدل می‌‌کند او سیئات ** طاعتی‌‌اش می‌‌کند رغم وشات‌‌
  • Since He changes evil acts (into good), He makes it (the disobedience) an act of obedience in despite of slanderers (devils).

  • زین شود مرجوم شیطان رجیم ** و ز حسد او بطرقد گردد دو نیم‌‌
  • By this (mercy of God) the stoned (accursed) Devil is driven away and bursts with envy and is cloven asunder.

  • او بکوشد تا گناهی پرورد ** ز آن گنه ما را به چاهی آورد
  • He strives to foster a sin (in us) and by means of that sin bring us into a pit;

  • چون ببیند کان گنه شد طاعتی ** گردد او را نامبارک ساعتی‌‌ 3840
  • When he sees that the sin has become an act of obedience (to God), there comes round for him an unblest hour.

  • اندر آ من در گشادم مر ترا ** تف زدی و تحفه دادم مر ترا
  • “Come in! I open the door to thee. Thou spattest (on me) and I give thee a present.

  • مر جفاگر را چنینها می‌‌دهم ** پیش پای چپ چه سان سر می‌‌نهم‌‌
  • Such things I am giving to the doer of iniquity: (thou seest) in what fashion I lay my head before the left foot.

  • پس وفاگر را چه بخشم تو بدان ** گنجها و ملکهای جاودان‌‌
  • What then do I bestow on the doer of righteousness? Know thou, (I bestow) treasures and kingdoms everlasting.

  • گفتن پیغامبر علیه السلام به گوش رکابدار امیر المؤمنین علی علیه السلام که کشتن علی بر دست تو خواهد بودن خبرت کردم‌‌
  • How the Prophet, on whom be peace, said in the ear of the stirrup-holder of the Prince of the Faithful ‘Alí, may God honour his person, “I tell thee, ‘Alí will be slain by thy hand.”

  • من چنان مردم که بر خونی خویش ** نوش لطف من نشد در قهر نیش‌‌
  • I am such a man that the honey of my kindness did not become poison in wrath (even) against my murderer.

  • گفت پیغمبر به گوش چاکرم ** کاو برد روزی ز گردن این سرم‌‌ 3845
  • The Prophet said in the ear of my servant that one day he would sever this head of mine from my neck.

  • کرد آگه آن رسول از وحی دوست ** که هلاکم عاقبت بر دست اوست‌‌
  • The Prophet by (Divine) inspiration informed my friend that in the end my destruction would be (wrought) by his hand.