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  • باز گفتش من عدوی تو نی‏ام ** لطف باشد گر بیایی در پی‏ام‏
  • He answered him, (saying), “I am not your enemy: it would be a kindness if you would come after me.”

  • گفت خوابستم مرا بگذار و رو ** گفت آخر یار را منقاد شو
  • “I am sleepy,” said he; “let me alone, go!” He replied, “Pray, give in to your friend,

  • تا بخسبی در پناه عاقلی ** در جوار دوستی صاحب دلی‏
  • So that you may sleep under the safeguard of a sage, under the protection of one loved (by God), a man of heart (spiritual insight).”

  • در خیال افتاد مرد از جد او ** خشمگین شد زود گردانید رو 2030
  • The man was thrown by his (the other's) earnestness into a (groundless) fancy: he became angry and quickly averted his face,

  • کاین مگر قصد من آمد خونی است ** یا طمع دارد گدا و تونی است‏
  • Thinking, “Mayhap this man has come to attack me—he is a murderer; or he has hope (of gain)—he is a beggar and a tout;

  • یا گرو بسته ست با یاران بدین ** که بترساند مرا زین هم نشین‏
  • Or he has wagered with his friends that he will make me afraid of this companion.”

  • خود نیامد هیچ از خبث سرش ** یک گمان نیک اندر خاطرش‏
  • From the wickedness of his heart, not (even) one good surmise came into his thoughts at all.

  • ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود
  • His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.

  • عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد 2035
  • Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just.

  • گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست‏
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”

  • گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال‏
  • Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,

  • صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم‏
  • Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).

  • صد هزاران معجزه دیدی ز من ** صد خیالت می‏فزود و شک و ظن‏
  • Thou hast seen from me hundreds of thousands of miracles, (and all the time) a hundred fancies and doubts and (vain) opinions were growing in thee.

  • از خیال و وسوسه تنگ آمدی ** طعن بر پیغمبری‏ام می‏زدی‏
  • Thou wert sorely pressed by fancy and devilish suggestion, thou wert sneering at my prophethood.

  • گرد از دریا بر آوردم عیان ** تا رهیدیت از شر فرعونیان‏ 2040
  • I raised up dust from the sea before your eyes, so that ye might be delivered from the wickedness of the people of Pharaoh.

  • ز آسمان چل سال کاسه و خوان رسید ** وز دعایم جویی از سنگی دوید
  • During forty years the platter and tray (of food) came (to you) from heaven, and at my prayer the river ran from a rock.

  • این و صد چندین و چندین گرم و سرد ** از تو ای سرد آن توهم کم نکرد
  • These (miracles) and a hundred times as many, and all these diverse (evidences), did not make that vain imagination fade away from thee, O cold (hard-hearted) man!

  • بانگ زد گوساله‏ای از جادویی ** سجده کردی که خدای من تویی‏
  • Through sorcery a calf lowed; (then) thou didst fall to worship, saying, ‘Thou art my God.’

  • آن توهمهات را سیلاب برد ** زیرکی باردت را خواب برد
  • (Then) those imaginations were swept away (as) by a flood, and thy silly shrewdness went to sleep.

  • چون نبودی بد گمان در حق او ** چون نهادی سر چنان ای زشت رو 2045
  • How wert not thou suspicious in regard to him (Sámirí)? Why didst thou lay thy head (on the ground) like that, O ugly one?

  • چون خیالت نامد از تزویر او ** وز فساد سحر احمق‏گیر او
  • How did no idea come to thee of his imposition and of the corruptness of his fool catching magic?

  • سامریی خود که باشد ای سگان ** که خدایی بر تراشد در جهان‏
  • Who, indeed, is a Sámirí, O ye curs, that he should hew up a God in the world?

  • چون در این تزویر او یکدل شدی ** وز همه اشکالها عاطل شدی‏
  • How didst thou become of one mind (with him) as to this imposture of his, and become devoid of all perplexities?

  • گاو می‏شاید خدایی را به لاف ** در رسولی‏ام تو چون کردی خلاف‏
  • Is a cow (calf) worthy to be deified on (the strength of) a vain boast, (while there are) a hundred disputes as to the prophetic mission of one like me?

  • پیش گاوی سجده کردی از خری ** گشت عقلت صید سحر سامری‏ 2050
  • Through asinine dullness thou didst cast thyself down in worship before a cow (calf); thy understanding fell a prey to Sámirí's magic.

  • چشم دزدیدی ز نور ذو الجلال ** اینت جهل وافر و عین ضلال‏
  • Thou didst steal thine eye away from the Light of the Glorious (God): here is plenteous folly for thee and the essence of perdition!