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  • گفت حجت در درون جانمست ** در درون جان نهان برهانمست
  • ‘The proof,’ he replied, ‘is within my soul: my evidence is hidden within my soul.

  • تو نمی‌بینی هلال از ضعف چشم ** من همی بینم مکن بر من تو خشم
  • You, from weakness of eye, are not seeing the new moon: (if) I am seeing it, do not you be angry with me.’

  • گفت و گو بسیار گشت و خلق گیج ** در سر و پایان این چرخ پسیج
  • There was much debate, and the people became perplexed as to the beginning and end of this well-ordered celestial sphere.

  • گفت یارا در درونم حجتیست ** بر حدوث آسمانم آیتیست 2850
  • He (the pious man) said, ‘Friend, within me is a (decisive) proof: I have a (manifest) sign indicating the temporal origin of the sky.

  • من یقین دارم نشانش آن بود ** مر یقین‌دان را که در آتش رود
  • I possess the certainty: for him that hath certain knowledge the token thereof is that he will go into the fire.

  • در زبان می‌ناید آن حجت بدان ** هم‌چو حال سر عشق عاشقان
  • Like the inmost feelings of love in lovers, that proof, (you must) know, does not come (to utterance) on the tongue.

  • نیست پیدا سر گفت و گوی من ** جز که زردی و نزاری روی من
  • The inmost meaning of my words is not apparent, except (in) the pallor and haggardness of my face.

  • اشک و خون بر رخ روانه می‌دود ** حجت حسن و جمالش می‌شود
  • Tears and blood roll on my cheeks and become the proof of His (the Beloved's) comeliness and beauty.’

  • گفت من اینها ندانم حجتی ** که بود در پیش عامه آیتی 2855
  • He (the philosopher) replied, ‘I do not deem these things to be such a proof as would be a manifest sign to the vulgar.’

  • گفت چون قلبی و نقدی دم زنند ** که تو قلبی من تکویم ارجمند
  • He (the other) said, ‘When a base and a genuine coin boast, saying (to each other), “Thou art base; I am good and valuable,”

  • هست آتش امتحان آخرین ** کاندر آتش در فتند این دو قرین
  • Fire is the final test: (the test is) that these two rivals should be dropped into the fire.

  • عام و خاص از حالشان عالم شوند ** از گمان و شک سوی ایقان روند
  • (Then) the vulgar and the elect will become acquainted with their (real) state and will advance from opinion and doubt to certain knowledge.

  • آب و آتش آمد ای جان امتحان ** نقد و قلبی را که آن باشد نهان
  • Water and fire, O (dear) soul, are the test for the pure and the base coin that is hidden.

  • تا من و تو هر دو در آتش رویم ** حجت باقی حیرانان شویم 2860
  • Let me and thee, both of us, go into the fire and become a lasting proof for the perplexed.

  • تا من و تو هر دو در بحر اوفتیم ** که من و تو این کره را آیتیم
  • Let me and thee, both of us, fall into the sea, for thou and I are a sign unto this multitude.’

  • هم‌چنان کردند و در آتش شدند ** هر دو خود را بر تف آتش زدند
  • Even so they did and entered the fire: both cast themselves upon the heat of the fire.

  • از خدا گوینده مرد مدعی ** رست و سوزید اندر آتش آن دعی
  • The God-proclaiming man who engaged in controversy was saved, while that bastard (impostor) was burnt in the fire.

  • از مذن بشنو این اعلام را ** کوری افزون‌روان خام را
  • Hear from the muezzin this announcement, to the confusion of the foolish transgressors,

  • که نسوزیدست این نام از اجل ** کش مسمی صدر بودست و اجل 2865
  • That this name (Mohammed) has not been burnt (destroyed) by Death, since its bearer was a prince and most noble.

  • صد هزاران زین رهان اندر قران ** بر دریده پرده‌های منکران
  • In the course of time hundreds of thousands of the veils of the unbelievers have been rent by this laying down of stakes.

  • چون گرو بستند غالب شد صواب ** در دوام و معجزات و در جواب
  • When they (the devout men and the philosopher) made the wager, the truth prevailed as regards immortality and evidentiary miracles and the answer (given to unbelievers).

  • فهم کردم کانک دم زد از سبق ** وز حدوث چرخ پیروزست و حق
  • I perceived that he who spoke (in support) of the priority (of non-existence) and of the temporal origin of the celestial sphere was victorious and in the right.”

  • حجت منکر هماره زردرو ** یک نشان بر صدق آن انکار کو
  • The unbeliever's argument is always shamefaced: where is a single sign that indicates the truth of that unbelief?

  • یک مناره در ثنای منکران ** کو درین عالم که تا باشد نشان 2870
  • Where in this world is (to be found) a single minaret in praise (honour) of the unbelievers, so that it should be a sign (of their veracity)?

  • منبری کو که بر آنجا مخبری ** یاد آرد روزگار منکری
  • Where is (to be found) a single pulpit where a preacher commemorates the life of an unbeliever?