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  • رب می‌گوید برو سوی سبب ** چون ز صنعم یاد کردی ای عجب
  • The Lord will say, “Betake thyself to the (secondary) cause! How hast thou remembered My work? Oh, wonderful!”

  • گفت زین پس من ترا بینم همه ** ننگرم سوی سبب و آن دمدمه
  • He (the believer in secondary causes) says, “Henceforth I will behold Thee entirely: I will not look towards the cause and that deception (by which I was led astray).”

  • گویدش ردوا لعادوا کار تست ** ای تو اندر توبه و میثاق سست
  • He (God) will reply to him, “Thy case is (described in the text), ‘(If) they were sent back (to the world), they would surely return (to what they were forbidden to do),’ O thou who art weak in thy repentance and covenant;

  • لیک من آن ننگرم رحمت کنم ** رحمتم پرست بر رحمت تنم
  • But I will not regard that, I will show mercy: My mercy is abounding, I will be intent on mercy.

  • ننگرم عهد بدت بدهم عطا ** از کرم این دم چو می‌خوانی مرا 3160
  • I will not regard thy bad promise, I from loving kindness will bestow the gift at this (very) moment, since thou art calling unto Me.”

  • قافله حیران شد اندر کار او ** یا محمد چیست این ای بحر خو
  • The (people of the) caravan were amazed at his (the Prophet's) deed. (They cried), “O Mohammed, O thou that hast the nature of the Sea, what is this?

  • کرده‌ای روپوش مشک خرد را ** غرقه کردی هم عرب هم کرد را
  • Thou hast made a small water-skin a veil (a means of disguise): thou hast drowned (abundantly satisfied the thirst of) both Arabs and Kurds.”

  • مشک آن غلام ازغیب پر آب کردن بمعجزه و آن غلام سیاه را سپیدرو کردن باذن الله تعالی
  • How he (the Prophet) miraculously filled the slave's water-skin with water from the Unseen World and made the face of that negro slave white by permission of God most High.

  • ای غلام اکنون تو پر بین مشک خود ** تا نگویی درشکایت نیک و بد
  • “O slave, now behold thy water-skin full (of water), that thou mayst not say (anything) good or bad in complaint.”

  • آن سیه حیران شد از برهان او ** می‌دمید از لامکان ایمان او
  • The negro was astounded at his (the Prophet's) evidentiary miracle: his faith was dawning from (the world of) non-spatiality.

  • چشمه‌ای دید از هوا ریزان شده ** مشک او روپوش فیض آن شده 3165
  • He saw that a fountain had begun to pour from the air (of yonder world) and that his water-skin had become a veil to the emanation of that (fountain).

  • زان نظر روپوشها هم بر درید ** تا معین چشمه‌ی غیبی بدید
  • The veils also were rent by that (illumined) sight (of his), so that he distinctly beheld the fountain of the Unseen.

  • چشمها پر آب کرد آن دم غلام ** شد فراموشش ز خواجه وز مقام
  • Thereupon the slave's eyes were filled with tears: he forgot his master and his dwelling-place.

  • دست و پایش ماند از رفتن به راه ** زلزله افکند در جانش اله
  • Strength failed him to go on his way: God cast a mighty commotion into his soul.

  • باز بهر مصلحت بازش کشید ** که به خویش آ باز رو ای مستفید
  • Then again he (the Prophet) drew him back for (his) good, saying, “Come to thyself; return, O thou who wilt gain advantage (by doing so).

  • وقت حیرت نیست حیرت پیش تست ** این زمان در ره در آ چالاک و چست 3170
  • ’Tis not the time for bewilderment: bewilderment is in front of thee; just now advance on thy way briskly and speedily.”

  • دستهای مصطفی بر رو نهاد ** بوسه‌های عاشقانه بس بداد
  • He (the slave) laid the hands of Mustafá (Mohammed) on his face and gave (them) many loving kisses.

  • مصطفی دست مبارک بر رخش ** آن زمان مالید و کرد او فرخش
  • Then Mustafá rubbed his blessed hand on his (the slave's) face and made it fortunate.

  • شد سپید آن زنگی و زاده‌ی حبش ** همچو بدر و روز روشن شد شبش
  • That Abyssinian negro became white as the full moon, and his night turned into bright day.

  • یوسفی شد در جمال و در دلال ** گفتش اکنون رو بده وا گوی حال
  • He became a Joseph in beauty and in coquetry: he (the Prophet) said to him, “Now go home and relate what has befallen thee.”

  • او همی‌شد بی سر و بی پای مست ** پای می‌نشناخت در رفتن ز دست 3175
  • He was going along, without head or foot, intoxicated (with ecstasy): in going he knew not foot from hand.

  • پس بیامد با دو مشک پر روان ** سوی خواجه از نواحی کاروان
  • Then from the neighbourhood of the caravan he came hastening with two full water-skins to his master.

  • دیدن خواجه غلام خود را سپید و ناشناختن کی اوست و گفتن کی غلام مرا تو کشته‌ای خونت گرفت و خدا ترا به دست من انداخت
  • How the master saw his slave white and did not recognise him and said, “Thou hast killed my slave: the murder hath found thee out, and God hath thrown thee into my hands.”

  • خواجه از دورش بدید و خیره ماند ** از تحیر اهل آن ده را بخواند
  • The master espied him from afar and remained bewildered: from amazement he called (to his presence) the people of the village.

  • راویه‌ی ما اشتر ما هست این ** پس کجا شد بنده‌ی زنگی‌جبین
  • “This,” said he, “is my water-skin and my camel: where, then, is my swart-browed slave gone?

  • این یکی بدریست می‌آید ز دور ** می‌زند بر نور روز از روش نور
  • This man coming from afar is (like) a full-moon: the light from his countenance strikes upon (and prevails against) the daylight.

  • کو غلام ما مگر سرگشته شد ** یا بدو گرگی رسید و کشته شد 3180
  • Where is my slave? Perchance he has lost his way, or a wolf has overtaken him and he has been killed.”