مرده بود و زنده گشت او از شگفت ** اژدها بر خویش جنبیدن گرفت

It had been dead, and it revived: from astonishment (at feeling the sun's heat) the dragon began to uncoil itself.

خلق را از جنبش آن مرده مار ** گشتشان آن یک تحیر صد هزار

By the stirring of that dead serpent the people's amazement was multiplied a hundred thousand fold.

با تحیر نعره‌ها انگیختند ** جملگان از جنبشش بگریختند 1045

With amazement they started shrieking and fled en masse from its motion.

می‌سکست او بند و زان بانگ بلند ** هر طرف می‌رفت چاقاچاق بند

It set about bursting the bonds, and at that loud outcry (of the people) the bonds on every side went crack, crack.

بندها بسکست و بیرون شد ز زیر ** اژدهایی زشت غران همچو شیر

It burst the bonds and glided out from beneath—a hideous dragon roaring like a lion.

در هزیمت بس خلایق کشته شد ** از فتاده و کشتگان صد پشته شد

Many people were killed in the rout: a hundred heaps were made of the fallen slain.

مارگیر از ترس بر جا خشک گشت ** که چه آوردم من از کهسار و دشت

The snake-catcher became paralysed with fear on the spot, crying, “What have I brought from the mountains and the desert?”

گرگ را بیدار کرد آن کور میش ** رفت نادان سوی عزرائیل خویش 1050

The blind sheep awakened the wolf: unwittingly it went towards its ‘Azrá’íl (Angel of death).

اژدها یک لقمه کرد آن گیج را ** سهل باشد خون‌خوری حجاج را

The dragon made one mouthful of that dolt: blood-drinking (bloodshed) is easy for Hajjáj.

خویش را بر استنی پیچید و بست ** استخوان خورده را در هم شکست

It wound and fastened itself on a pillar and crunched the bones of the devoured man.

نفست اژدرهاست او کی مرده است ** از غم و بی آلتی افسرده است

The dragon is thy sensual soul: how is it dead? It is (only) frozen by grief and lack of means.

گر بیابد آلت فرعون او ** که بامر او همی‌رفت آب جو

If it obtain the means of Pharaoh, by whose command the water of the river (Nile) would flow,

آنگه او بنیاد فرعونی کند ** راه صد موسی و صد هارون زند 1055

Then it will begin to act like Pharaoh and will waylay a hundred (such as) Moses and Aaron.

کرمکست آن اژدها از دست فقر ** پشه‌ای گردد ز جاه و مال صقر

That dragon, under stress of poverty, is a little worm, (but) a gnat is made a falcon by power and riches.

اژدها را دار در برف فراق ** هین مکش او را به خورشید عراق

Keep the dragon in the snow of separation (from its desires); beware, do not carry it into the sun of ‘Iráq.

تا فسرده می‌بود آن اژدهات ** لقمه‌ی اویی چو او یابد نجات

So long as that dragon of thine remains frozen, (well and good); thou art a mouthful for it, when it gains release.

مات کن او را و آمن شو ز مات ** رحم کم کن نیست او ز اهل صلات

Mortify it and become safe from (spiritual) death; have no mercy: it is not one of them that deserve favours;

کان تف خورشید شهوت بر زند ** آن خفاش مردریگت پر زند 1060

For (when) the heat of the sun of lust strikes upon it, that vile bat of thine flaps its wings.

می‌کشانش در جهاد و در قتال ** مردوار الله یجزیک الوصال

Lead it manfully to the (spiritual) warfare and battle: God will reward thee with access (to Him).

چونک آن مرد اژدها را آورید ** در هوای گرم خوش شد آن مرید

When that man brought the dragon into the hot air, the insolent brute became well (again),

لاجرم آن فتنه‌ها کرد ای عزیز ** بیست همچندان که ما گفتیم نیز

Inevitably it wrought those mischiefs, my dear friend, (and others) too, twenty times as many as we have told.

تو طمع داری که او را بی جفا ** بسته داری در وقار و در وفا

Dost thou hope, without using violence, to keep it bound in quiet and faithfulness?

هر خسی را این تمنی کی رسد ** موسیی باید که اژدرها کشد 1065

How should this wish be fulfilled for any worthless one? It needs a Moses to kill the dragon.

صدهزاران خلق ز اژدرهای او ** در هزیمت کشته شد از رای او

By his dragon hundreds of thousands of people were killed in the rout, as he had designed.

تهدید کردن فرعون موسی را علیه السلام

How Pharaoh threatened Moses, on whom be peace.

گفت فرعونش چرا تو ای کلیم ** خلق را کشتی و افکندی تو بیم

Pharaoh said to him, “Why didst thou, O Kalím, kill the people and cause fear to fall (on them)?