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  • ناگهان چشمش سوی دریا فتاد ** چون شنید از سوی دریا داد داد
  • Of a sudden his eye turned towards the sea, because he heard (cries of) “Help! Help!” (coming) from the direction of the sea.

  • در میان موج دید او کشتیی ** در قضا و در بلا و زشتیی
  • He saw amidst the waves a ship in (the hour of its) fate, and in tribulation and an evil plight.

  • هم شب و هم ابر و هم موج عظیم ** این سه تاریکی و از غرقاب بیم 2180
  • (There were) both night and clouds and huge waves: these three darknesses, and (also) fear of (being drowned in) the whirlpool.

  • تند بادی همچو عزرائیل خاست ** موجها آشوفت اندر چپ و راست
  • A fierce wind, like ‘Azrá’íl, arose; the waves tossed on left and right.

  • اهل کشتی از مهابت کاسته ** نعره وا ویلها برخاسته
  • The people in the ship were faint with terror: cries of woe had arisen,

  • دستها در نوحه بر سر می‌زدند ** کافر و ملحد همه مخلص شدند
  • And in lamentation they were beating their heads with their hands: infidel and deist—they all had become sincere (in devotion to God),

  • با خدا با صد تضرع آن زمان ** عهدها و نذرها کرده بجان
  • Making heartfelt promises and vows to God with a hundred humble entreaties in that hour.

  • سر برهنه در سجود آنها که هیچ ** رویشان قبله ندید از پیچ پیچ 2185
  • Bare-headed in the prostrate attitude (of Divine worship) were those whose faces, because of (their) perversity, had never seen the qibla at all.

  • گفته که بی‌فایده‌ست این بندگی ** آن زمان دیده در آن صد زندگی
  • They (formerly) said, “This worship of God is useless”; (but) in that hour (of despair) they saw a hundred lives (precious advantages) therein.

  • از همه اومید ببریده تمام ** دوستان و خال و عم بابا و مام
  • They had entirely abandoned hope of all—of friends and maternal and paternal uncles and father and mother.

  • زاهد و فاسق شد آن دم متقی ** همچو در هنگام جان کندن شقی
  • At that moment ascetic and reprobate (alike) had become God-fearing as a wicked man at the time of the death-agony.

  • نه ز چپشان چاره بود و نه ز راست ** حیله‌ها چون مرد هنگام دعاست
  • Neither on the left nor on the right was there any help for them: when (all) expedients are dead, (then) is the time to invoke God.

  • در دعا ایشان و در زاری و آه ** بر فلک زیشان شده دود سیاه 2190
  • They were (engaged) in invocation and lament and moaning: a black smoke went up from them to heaven.

  • دیو آن دم از عداوت بین بین ** بانگ زد کای سگ‌پرستان علتین
  • Then the Devil cried in enmity, “Avaunt! Avaunt! O dog-worshippers, (ye shall be afflicted with) two maladies.

  • مرگ و جسک ای اهل انکار و نفاق ** عاقبت خواهد بدن این اتفاق
  • Death and woe (to you)! O unbelievers and hypocrites, this will befall (you) in the end,

  • چشمتان تر باشد از بعد خلاص ** که شوید از بهر شهوت دیو خاص
  • (That) after deliverance ye will rejoice to become peculiar devils for the sake of (gratifying) your lust,

  • یادتان ناید که روزی در خطر ** دستتان بگرفت یزدان از قدر
  • And will not remember that in the day of peril God took your hands (to save you) from His decree.”

  • این همی‌آمد ندا از دیو لیک ** این سخن را نشنود جز گوش نیک 2195
  • This cry was coming from the Devil; but these words are unheard except by a good ear.

  • راست فرمودست با ما مصطفی ** قطب و شاهنشاه و دریای صفا
  • Mustafá (Mohammed), the Pole and the Emperor and the Sea of Purity, has told us truly,

  • کانچ جاهل دید خواهد عاقبت ** عاقلان بینند ز اول مرتبت
  • That what the ignorant will see in the end the wise see from the first step.

  • کارها ز آغاز اگر غیبست و سر ** عاقل اول دید و آخر آن مصر
  • If matters are hidden and secret at the beginning, the wise man sees at first, while that obstinate one (sees) at last.

  • اولش پوشیده باشد و آخر آن ** عاقل و جاهل ببیند در عیان
  • The beginning thereof is concealed, and both the wise man and the ignorant will see the end in (the moment of its) manifestation;

  • گر نبینی واقعه‌ی غیب ای عنود ** حزم را سیلاب کی اندر ربود 2200
  • (But) if you, O contumacious one, do not see the hidden event (before it comes to pass)—when did the torrent sweep away your prudence?

  • حزم چه بود بدگمانی بر جهان ** دم بدم بیند بلای ناگهان
  • What is prudence? To think ill of the world. He (the prudent man) at every moment will (expect to) see a sudden calamity.

  • تصورات مرد حازم
  • The ideas of the prudent man.

  • آنچنانک ناگهان شیری رسید ** مرد را بربود و در بیشه کشید
  • ’Tis as when a lion has suddenly come up and seized a man and dragged him into the jungle.