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  • طایفه‌‌ی نصرانیان بهر ثواب ** چون رسیدندی بدان نام و خطاب‌‌
  • A party among the Christians, for the sake of the Divine reward, whenever (in reading the Gospel) they came to that name and allocution,

  • بوسه دادندی بر آن نام شریف ** رو نهادندی بر آن وصف لطیف‌‌ 730
  • Would bestow kisses on that noble name and stoop their faces towards that beauteous description.

  • اندر این فتنه که گفتیم آن گروه ** ایمن از فتنه بدند و از شکوه‌‌
  • In this tribulation of which we have told, that party were secure from tribulation and dread,

  • ایمن از شر امیران و وزیر ** در پناه نام احمد مستجیر
  • Secure from the mischief of the amírs and the vizier, seeking refuge in the protection of the Name of Ahmad (Mohammed).

  • نسل ایشان نیز هم بسیار شد ** نور احمد ناصر آمد یار شد
  • Their offspring also multiplied: the Light of Ahmad aided and befriended them.

  • و آن گروه دیگر از نصرانیان ** نام احمد داشتندی مستهان‌‌
  • And the other party among the Christians (who) were holding the Name of Ahmad in contempt,

  • مستهان و خوار گشتند از فتن ** از وزیر شوم رای شوم فن‌‌ 735
  • They became contemptible and despised through dissensions caused by the evil counselling and evil-plotting vizier;

  • هم مخبط دینشان و حکمشان ** از پی طومارهای کژ بیان‌‌
  • Moreover, their religion and their law became corrupted in consequence of the scrolls which set forth all perversely.

  • نام احمد این چنین یاری کند ** تا که نورش چون نگهداری کند
  • The Name of Ahmad gives such help as this, so that (one may judge) how his Light keeps guard (over his followers).

  • نام احمد چون حصاری شد حصین ** تا چه باشد ذات آن روح الامین
  • Since the Name of Ahmad became (to the Christians) an impregnable fortress, what then must be the Essence of that trusted Spirit?

  • حکایت پادشاه جهود دیگر که در هلاک دین عیسی سعی نمود
  • The story of another Jewish king who endeavored to destroy the religion of Jesus.

  • بعد از این خون ریز درمان ناپذیر ** کاندر افتاد از بلای آن وزیر
  • After this irremediable bloodshed which befell through the affliction (brought upon the Christians) by the vizier,

  • یک شه دیگر ز نسل آن جهود ** در هلاک قوم عیسی رو نمود 740
  • Another king, of the progeny of that Jew, addressed himself to the destruction of the people of Jesus.

  • گر خبر خواهی از این دیگر خروج ** سوره بر خوان و السما ذات البروج‌‌
  • If you desire information about this second outbreak, read the chapter of the Qur’án (beginning): By Heaven which hath the (zodiacal) signs.

  • سنت بد کز شه اول بزاد ** این شه دیگر قدم بر وی نهاد
  • This second king set foot in the evil way that was originated by the former king.

  • هر که او بنهاد ناخوش سنتی ** سوی او نفرین رود هر ساعتی‌‌
  • Whosoever establishes an evil way (practice), towards him goes malediction every hour.

  • نیکوان رفتند و سنتها بماند ** وز لئیمان ظلم و لعنتها بماند
  • The righteous departed and their ways remained, and from the vile there remained (nothing but) injustice and execrations.

  • تا قیامت هر که جنس آن بدان ** در وجود آید بود رویش بدان‌‌ 745
  • Until the Resurrection, the face of every congener of those wicked men who comes into existence is turned towards that one (who belongs to his own kind).

  • رگ رگ است این آب شیرین و آب شور ** در خلایق می‌‌رود تا نفخ صور
  • Vein by vein is this sweet water and bitter water, flowing in (God's) creatures until the blast of the trumpet (at the Resurrection).

  • نیکوان را هست میراث از خوش‌‌آب ** آن چه میراث است أورثنا الکتاب‌‌
  • To the righteous is the inheritance of the sweet water. What is that inheritance? We have caused (those of Our servants whom We have chosen) to inherit the Book.

  • شد نیاز طالبان ار بنگری ** شعله‌‌ها از گوهر پیغمبری‌‌
  • If you will consider, the supplications of the seekers (of God) are rays (proceeding) from the substance of prophethood.

  • شعله‌‌ها با گوهران گردان بود ** شعله آن جانب رود هم کان بود
  • The rays are circling with the substances (whence they spring): the ray goes (ultimately) in the direction where that (substance) is.

  • نور روزن گرد خانه می‌‌دود ** ز آنکه خور برجی به برجی می‌‌رود 750
  • The window-gleam runs round the house, because the sun goes from sign to sign of the zodiac.

  • هر که را با اختری پیوستگی است ** مر و را با اختر خود هم تگی است‌‌
  • Any one who has affinity with a star (planet) has a concurrence (of qualities) with his star.

  • طالعش گر زهره باشد در طرب ** میل کلی دارد و عشق و طلب‌‌
  • If his ascendant star be Venus, his whole inclination and love and desire is for joy;

  • ور بود مریخی خون‌‌ریز خو ** جنگ و بهتان و خصومت جوید او
  • And if he be one born under Mars, one whose nature is to shed blood, he seeks war and malignity and enmity.