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  • ظلم مستورست در اسرار جان ** می‌نهد ظالم بپیش مردمان
  • Wrong is covered (from sight) in the inmost thoughts of the soul: the wrong-doer exposes it to men,

  • که ببینیدم که دارم شاخها ** گاو دوزخ را ببینید از ملا
  • Saying, “Behold me! I have horns! Behold the cow of Hell in full view!”

  • گواهی دادن دست و پا و زبان بر سر ظالم هم در دنیا
  • How hands and feet and tongue give evidence concerning the secret of the wicked, even in this world.

  • پس همینجا دست و پایت در گزند ** بر ضمیر تو گواهی می‌دهند 2455
  • Even here, then, your hands and feet, in (doing) harm, bear witness to your conscience.

  • چون موکل می‌شود برتو ضمیر ** که بگو تو اعتقادت وا مگیر
  • Since your (evil) conscience becomes (as) an overseer to you and says, “Speak! Do not keep back your belief,”

  • خاصه در هنگام خشم و گفت و گو ** می‌کند ظاهر سرت را مو بمو
  • And, especially at times of anger and quarrelling, makes manifest your secret thought, hair by hair;

  • چون موکل می‌شود ظلم و جفا ** که هویدا کن مرا ای دست و پا
  • Since wrong and injustice become your overseer and say, “Display me, O hands and feet,”

  • چون همی‌گیرد گواه سر لگام ** خاصه وقت جوش و خشم و انتقام
  • And since the (evil conscience which bears) witness to the secret thought seizes the reins—in particular at times of emotion and anger and revenge—

  • پس همان کس کین موکل می‌کند ** تا لوای راز بر صحرا زند 2460
  • That One, then, who appoints this (conscience) as overseer, that ‘it may unfurl the banner of the secret on the field—

  • پس موکلهای دیگر روز حشر ** هم تواند آفرید از بهر نشر
  • (Surely), then, He can also create, on the Day of Judgement, other overseers for the purpose of unfolding (the secret thoughts).

  • ای بده دست آمده در ظلم و کین ** گوهرت پیداست حاجت نیست این
  • O thou who hast entered most recklessly upon (a course of) injustice and malice, thy true nature is evident: this (advertisement of it) is not needed.

  • نیست حاجت شهره گشتن در گزند ** بر ضمیر آتشینت واقف‌اند
  • It is not necessary to become celebrated for (doing) harm: they (who possess discernment) are acquainted with thy fiery (hellish) conscience.

  • نفس تو هر دم بر آرد صد شرار ** که ببینیدم منم ز اصحاب نار
  • Thy fleshly soul every moment emits a hundred sparks, saying, “Behold me! I am of the people of the Fire.

  • جزو نارم سوی کل خود روم ** من نه نورم که سوی حضرت شوم 2465
  • I am a part of the Fire: I go to my whole; I am not (composed of) light, so that I should go to the Lord”—

  • همچنان کین ظالم حق ناشناس ** بهر گاوی کرد چندین التباس
  • Even as this unjust and ungrateful man wrought so much confusion (made such a great disturbance) for the sake of a cow.

  • او ازو صد گاو برد و صد شتر ** نفس اینست ای پدر از وی ببر
  • He carried off from him (the defendant) a hundred cows and a hundred camels this (wickedness) is the fleshly soul: O father, cut yourself asunder from it.

  • نیز روزی با خدا زاری نکرد ** یا ربی نامد ازو روزی بدرد
  • Besides, never once did he make humble supplication to God: never once did a cry of “O Lord!” come from him in sorrow—

  • کای خدا خصم مرا خشنود کن ** گر منش کردم زیان تو سود کن
  • “O God, content my adversary: if I have inflicted loss upon him (yet) do Thou bestow profit (upon me)!

  • گر خطا کشتم دیت بر عاقله‌ست ** عاقله‌ی جانم تو بودی از الست 2470
  • If T killed him by mistake, the (payment of the) blood-price falls on my kin: Thou hast been my spirit’s kin from (the Day of) Alast.”

  • سنگ می‌ندهد به استغفار در ** این بود انصاف نفس ای جان حر
  • He (God) does not give (worthless) stones in return for the pearls of contrition (nay), this, O noble spirit, is the justice of the fleshly soul.

  • برون رفتن به سوی آن درخت
  • How the people went forth to that tree.

  • چون برون رفتند سوی آن درخت ** گفت دستش را سپس بندید سخت
  • When they went forth to that tree, he (David) said, “Tie his hands fast behind him,

  • تا گناه و جرم او پیدا کنم ** تا لوای عدل بر صحرا زنم
  • In order that I may bring to light his sin and crime, and may plant the banner of justice on the field.

  • گفت ای سگ جد او را کشته‌ای ** تو غلامی خواجه زین رو گشته‌ای
  • O dog,” said he, “you have killed his grandfather. You are a slave: by this means you have become a lord.

  • خواجه را کشتی و بردی مال او ** کرد یزدان آشکارا حال او 2475
  • You killed your master and carried off his property: God bath made manifest what happened to him.

  • آن زنت او را کنیزک بوده است ** با همین خواجه جفا بنموده است
  • Your wife was his handmaid; she has acted unjustly towards this same master.

  • هر چه زو زایید ماده یا که نر ** ملک وارث باشد آنها سر بسر
  • Whatever (children) she bore to him, female or male—all of them from beginning to end are the property of the (master’s) heir.