In this court of the Judge who pronounces the Decree we are (present) for the purpose of (making good) our claim (to fulfil the covenant signified by the words) “Am not I (your Lord)?” and “Yea”;
که بلی گفتیم و آن را ز امتحان ** فعل و قول ما شهودست و بیان 175
For we said, “Yea,” and (since we are) on trial our acts and words are the (necessary) witnesses and evidence of that (assent).
از چه در دهلیز قاضی ای گواه ** حبس باشی ده شهادت از پگاه
Wherefore do we keep silence in the court of the Judge? Have not we come (here) to bear testimony?
چند در دهلیز قاضی ای گواه ** حبس باشی ده شهادت از بگاه
How long, O witness, wilt thou remain under detention in the court of the Judge? Give thy testimony betimes.
زان بخواندندت بدین‌جا تا که تو ** آن گواهی بدهی و ناری عتو
Thou hast been summoned hither that thou mayst give the testimony and show no disobedience;
از لجاج خویشتن بنشسته‌ای ** اندرین تنگی کف و لب بسته‌ای
(But) in thy obstinacy thou hast sat down and closed (both) hand and mouth in this confinement.
تا بندهی آن گواهی ای شهید ** تو ازین دهلیز کی خواهی رهید 180
Until thou give that testimony, O witness, how wilt thou escape from this court?
یک زمان کارست بگزار و بتاز ** کار کوته را مکن بر خود دراز
’Tis the affair of a moment. Perform (thy duty) and run away: do not make a short matter long (tedious and irksome) to thyself.
خواه در صد سال خواهی یک زمان ** این امانت واگزار و وا رهان
As thou wilt, whether during a hundred years or in a moment, discharge this trust and acquit thyself (of it).
بیان آنک نماز و روزه و همه چیزهای برونی گواهیهاست بر نور اندرونی
Explaining that (ritual) prayer and fasting and all (such) external things are witnesses to the inner light.
این نماز و روزه و حج و جهاد ** هم گواهی دادنست از اعتقاد
This (ritual) prayer and fasting and pilgrimage and holy war are the attestation of the (inward) belief.
این زکات و هدیه و ترک حسد ** هم گواهی دادنست از سر خود
The giving of alms and presents and the abandonment of envy are the attestation of one's secret thoughts.
خوان و مهمانی پی اظهار راست ** کای مهان ما با شما گشتیم راست 185
Dishes of food and hospitality are for the purpose of declaring that “we, O noble (guests), have become in true accord with you.”
هدیه‌ها و ارمغان و پیش‌کش ** شد گواه آنک هستم با تو خوش
Gifts and presents and offerings bear witness (saying implicitly), “I am pleased with thee.”
هر کسی کوشد به مالی یا فسون ** چیست دارم گوهری در اندرون
(If) any one exerts himself in (giving) money or in conjuration, what is (the meaning of) it? (He means to say), “I have a jewel within.
گوهری دارم ز تقوی یا سخا ** این زکات و روزه در هر دو گوا
I have a jewel, namely, abstinence or generosity”: this alms-giving and fasting are witnesses in regard to both (these qualities).
روزه گوید کرد تقوی از حلال ** در حرامش دان که نبود اتصال
Fasting says (implicitly), “He has abstained from what is lawful: know (therefore) that he has no connexion with what is unlawful”;
وان زکاتش گفت کو از مال خویش ** می‌دهد پس چون بدزدد ز اهل کیش 190
And his alms-giving said (implicitly), “He gives of his own property: how, then, should he steal from the religious?”
گر بطراری کند پس دو گواه ** جرح شد در محکمه‌ی عدل اله
If he act as a cutpurse (from self-interest), then the two witnesses are invalidated in the court of Divine justice.
هست صیاد ار کند دانه نثار ** نه ز رحم و جود بل بهر شکار
He is a fowler if he scatter grain not from mercy and munificence but in order to catch (the birds).