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  • چون ز فهم این عجایب کودنی ** گر بلی گویی تکلف می‌کنی
  • Forasmuch as you are too dull to apprehend these wonders (of God), if you say “yea” you will be prevaricating;

  • ور بگویی نی زند نی گردنت ** قهر بر بندد بدان نی روزنت 3750
  • And if you say “nay,” the “nay” will behead (undo) you: on account of that “nay” (the Divine) Wrath will shut your (spiritual) window.

  • پس همین حیران و واله باش و بس ** تا درآید نصر حق از پیش و پس
  • Be, then, only dumbfounded and distraught, nothing else, that God's aid may come in from before and behind.

  • چونک حیران گشتی و گیج و فنا ** با زبان حال گفتی اهدنا
  • When you have become dumbfounded and crazed and naughted, you have said with mute eloquence, “Lead us.”

  • زفت زفتست و چو لرزان می‌شوی ** می‌شود آن زفت نرم و مستوی
  • It (the wrath of God) is mighty, mighty; but when you begin to tremble, that mighty (wrath) becomes assuaged and equable,

  • زانک شکل زفت بهر منکرست ** چونک عاجز آمدی لطف و برست
  • Because the mighty shape is for (terrifying) the unbeliever; when you have become helpless, it is mercy and kindness.

  • نمودن جبرئیل علیه‌السلام خود را به مصطفی صلی‌الله علیه و سلم به صورت خویش و از هفتصد پر او چون یک پر ظاهر شد افق را بگرفت و آفتاب محجوب شد با همه شعاعش
  • How Gabriel, on whom be peace, showed himself to Mustafá (Mohammed), God bless and save him, in his own shape; and how, when one of his seven hundred wings became visible, it covered the horizon (on all sides), and the sun with all its radiance was veiled over.

  • مصطفی می‌گفت پیش جبرئیل ** که چنانک صورت تست ای خلیل 3755
  • Mustafá said in the presence of Gabriel, “Even as thy shape (really) is, O friend,

  • مر مرا بنما تو محسوس آشکار ** تا ببینم مر ترا نظاره‌وار
  • Show it to me sensibly and visibly, that I may behold thee as spectators (who fix their eyes on an object of interest).”

  • گفت نتوانی و طاقت نبودت ** حس ضعیفست و تنک سخت آیدت
  • He replied, “Thou canst not (bear this) and hast not the power to endure it; the sense (of sight) is weak and frail: ’twould be grievous for thee (to behold me).”

  • گفت بنما تا ببیند این جسد ** تا چد حد حس نازکست و بی‌مدد
  • “Show thyself,” said he, “that this body may perceive to what an extent the senses are frail and resourceless.”

  • آدمی را هست حس تن سقیم ** لیک در باطن یکی خلقی عظیم
  • Man's bodily senses are infirm, but he hath a potent nature within.

  • بر مثال سنگ و آهن این تنه ** لیک هست او در صفت آتش‌زنه 3760
  • This body resembles flint and steel, but in quality (intrinsically) it is a striker of fire.

  • سنگ وآهن مولد ایجاد نار ** زاد آتش بر دو والد قهربار
  • Flint and steel are the birth-place whence fire is brought into being: (from them) fire is born, domineering over both its parents.

  • باز آتش دستکار وصف تن ** هست قاهر بر تن او و شعله‌زن
  • Fire, again, exercises sway over the bodily nature: it is dominant over the body and flaming;

  • باز در تن شعله ابراهیم‌وار ** که ازو مقهور گردد برج نار
  • Yet again, there is in the body an Abraham-like flame whereby the tower of fire is subdued.

  • لاجرم گفت آن رسول ذو فنون ** رمز نحن الاخرون السابقون
  • In consequence (of this) the all-accomplished Prophet said symbolically, “We are the hindmost and the foremost.”

  • ظاهر این دو بسندانی زبون ** در صفت از کان آهنها فزون 3765
  • The material form of these twain (flint and steel) is vanquished by a (hammer and) anvil, (but) in quality (intrinsically) they are superior to the mine of iron ores.

  • پس به صورت آدمی فرع جهان ** وز صفت اصل جهان این را بدان
  • Therefore Man is in appearance a derivative of the world, and intrinsically the origin of the world. Observe this!

  • ظاهرش را پشه‌ای آرد به چرخ ** باطنش باشد محیط هفت چرخ
  • A gnat will set his outward frame whirling round (in pain and agitation); his inward nature encompasses the Seven Heavens.

  • چونک کرد الحاح بنمود اندکی ** هیبتی که که شود زومند کی
  • When he (the Prophet) persisted (in his request), he (Gabriel) displayed a little the awful majesty by which a mountain would be reduced to dust.

  • شهپری بگرفته شرق و غرب را ** از مهابت گشت بیهش مصطفی
  • A single royal pinion (of his) covered the east and the west: Mustafá (Mohammed) became senseless from awe.

  • چون ز بیم و ترس بیهوشش بدید ** جبرئیل آمد در آغوشش کشید 3770
  • When Gabriel saw him senseless from fear and dread, he came and drew him into his arms.

  • آن مهابت قسمت بیگانگان ** وین تجمش دوستان را رایگان
  • That awe is the portion of aliens, while this fond affection is freely bestowed on friends.

  • هست شاهان را زمان بر نشست ** هول سرهنگان و صارمها به دست
  • Kings, when seated on the throne, have formidable guardsmen (around them) with swords in their hands,

  • دور باش و نیزه و شمشیرها ** که بلرزند از مهابت شیرها
  • Staves and lances and scimitars, so that (even) lions would tremble in awe;