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  • هم‌چو فرزندش نهاده بر کنار  ** می‌برد تا بکشدش قصاب‌وار 
  • Which he lays in his lap as though it were his own child and carries away to slaughter like a butcher.

  • عاد را آن باد ز استکبار بود  ** یار خود پنداشتند اغیار بود 
  • That wind was (the punishment) for ‘Ád because of their pride: they indeed deemed it a friend, (but) it was (really) a stranger (foe).

  • چون بگردانید ناگه پوستین  ** خردشان بشکست آن بس القرین 
  • When of a sudden it turned its coat, that evil comrade shattered them piecemeal.

  • باد را بشکن که بس فتنه‌ست باد  ** پیش از آن کت بشکند او هم‌چو عاد 
  • Shatter (destroy) the wind—for the wind (of self-will) is a great temptation— ere it shatter thee, like ‘Ád.

  • هود دادی پند که ای پر کبر خیل  ** بر کند از دستتان این باد ذیل  4680
  • Húd admonished them, saying, “O prideful folk, this wind will tear out of your hands the skirt (to which ye are clinging).

  • لشکر حق است باد و از نفاق  ** چند روزی با شما کرد اعتناق 
  • The wind is God's army, and (only) in hypocrisy (deceit) has it embraced you for a few days.

  • او به سر با خالق خود راستست  ** چون اجل آید بر آرد باد دست 
  • Secretly it is loyal to its Creator: when the appointed term arrives, the wind will throw up its hands (and desert you).”

  • باد را اندر دهن بین ره‌گذر  ** هر نفس آیان روان در کر و فر 
  • See how the wind passes through the mouth, coming and going at every moment in advance and retreat.

  • حلق و دندان‌ها ازو آمن بود  ** حق چو فرماید به دندان در فتد 
  • The throat and teeth are in no danger from it; (but) when God commands, it attacks the teeth;

  • کوه گردد ذره‌ای باد و ثقیل  ** درد دندان داردش زار و علیل  4685
  • (And then) a (mere) atom of wind becomes (like) a mountain and heavy, and toothache keeps him (the sufferer) miserable and ill.

  • این همان بادست که امن می‌گذشت  ** بود جان کشت و گشت او مرگ کشت 
  • This is the same wind that used to pass by harmlessly: it was the life of the crops and it became the death of the crops.

  • دست آن کس که بکردت دست‌بوس  ** وقت خشم آن دست می‌گردد دبوس 
  • The hand of the person who (formerly) kissed thy hand—in the moment of anger that hand becomes a mace.

  • یا رب و یا رب بر آرد او ز جان  ** که ببر این باد را ای مستعان 
  • He (who has toothache) cries from his soul, “O Lord! O Lord! Take away this wind, O Thou whose aid is besought (by all)!

  • ای دهان غافل بدی زین باد رو  ** از بن دندان در استغفار شو 
  • O mouth, thou wert heedless of this wind: (now) go and betake thyself to asking pardon of God with utter abasement.”

  • چشم سختش اشک‌ها باران کند  ** منکران را درد الله‌خوان کند  4690
  • His hard eye (now) sheds tears like rain: (only) pain causes the unbelievers to call unto God.

  • چون دم مردان نپذرفتی ز مرد  ** وحی حق را هین پذیرا شو ز درد 
  • Since thou hast not received the breath (inspiration) of (holy) men from a (holy) man, hark, receive the Divine inspiration from pain.

  • باد گوید پیکم از شاه بشر  ** گه خبر خیر آورم گه شوم و شر 
  • The wind says, “I am a messenger from the King of mankind: now I bring good news, now calamitous and bad;

  • ز آنک مامورم امیر خود نیم  ** من چو تو غافل ز شاه خود کیم 
  • For I am subject to command, I am not in command of myself: when am I forgetful, like thee, of my King?

  • گر سلیمان‌وار بودی حال تو  ** چون سلیمان گشتمی حمال تو 
  • If thy (spiritual) state resembled that of Solomon, I should have carried thee as (I carried) Solomon.

  • عاریه‌ستم گشتمی ملک کفت  ** کردمی بر راز خود من واقفت  4695
  • I am (only) lent (to thee); I should have become a possession in thy hand: I should have made thee acquainted with my mystery.

  • لیک چون تو یاغیی من مستعار  ** می‌کنم خدمت ترا روزی سه چار 
  • But since thou art rebellious and I am (only) taken on loan to serve thee for three or four days,

  • پس چو عادت سرنگونی‌ها دهم  ** ز اسپه تو یاغیانه بر جهم 
  • Therefore I will lay thee low, like ‘Ád, and dash away in revolt from thy army,

  • تا به غیب ایمان تو محکم شود  ** آن زمان که ایمانت مایه‌ی غم شود 
  • In order that thy faith in the Unseen may become firm at the moment when thy faith is (only) a source of woe.”

  • آن زمان خود جملگان مؤمن شوند  ** آن زمان خود سرکشان بر سر دوند 
  • (For) at that moment, in sooth, all become believers: at that moment even the (most) headstrong run on their heads.

  • آن زمان زاری کنند و افتقار  ** هم‌چو دزد و راه‌زن در زیر دار  4700
  • At that moment they cry piteously and make humble supplication, like robbers and brigands under the gibbet.