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  • تن فدای خار می‌کرد آن بلال  ** خواجه‌اش می‌زد برای گوشمال 
  • That Bilál was devoting his body to the (scourge of) thorns: his master was flogging him by way of correction,

  • که چرا تو یاد احمد می‌کنی  ** بنده‌ی بد منکر دین منی 
  • Saying, “Why dost thou celebrate Ahmad (Mohammed)? Wicked slave, thou disbelievest in my religion!”

  • می‌زد اندر آفتابش او به خار  ** او احد می‌گفت بهر افتخار  890
  • He was beating him in the sun with thorns (while) he (Bilál) cried vauntingly “One!”

  • تا که صدیق آن طرف بر می‌گذشت  ** آن احد گفتن به گوش او برفت 
  • Till (at last) those cries of “One!” reached the ears of the Siddíq (Abú Bakr), who was passing in that neighbourhood.

  • چشم او پر آب شد دل پر عنا  ** زان احد می‌یافت بوی آشنا 
  • His eyes became filled with tears and his heart with trouble, (for) from that “One!” he caught the scent of a loving friend (of God).

  • بعد از آن خلوت بدیدش پند داد  ** کز جهودان خفیه می‌دار اعتقاد 
  • Afterwards he saw him (Bilál) in private and admonished him, saying, “Keep thy belief hidden from the Jews.

  • عالم السرست پنهان دار کام  ** گفت کردم توبه پیشت ای همام 
  • He (God) knows (all) secrets: conceal thy desire.” He (Bilál) said, “I repent before thee, O prince.”

  • روز دیگر از پگه صدیق تفت  ** آن طرف از بهر کاری می‌برفت  895
  • Early next day, (when) the Siddíq was going quickly in that district on account of some affair,

  • باز احد بشنید و ضرب زخم خار  ** برفروزید از دلش سوز و شرار 
  • He again heard (cries of) “One!” and (the sound of) blows inflicted by the (scourge of) thorns: flames and sparks of fire were kindled in his heart.

  • باز پندش داد باز او توبه کرد  ** عشق آمد توبه‌ی او را بخورد 
  • He admonished him once more, and once more he (Bilál) repented; (but) Love came and consumed his repentance.

  • توبه کردن زین نمط بسیار شد  ** عاقبت از توبه او بیزار شد 
  • There was much repenting of this sort, (till) at last he became quit of repentance,

  • فاش کرد اسپرد تن را در بلا  ** کای محمد ای عدو توبه‌ها 
  • And proclaimed (his faith) and yielded up his body to tribulation, crying, “O Mohammed, O enemy of vows of repentance,

  • ای تن من وی رگ من پر ز تو  ** توبه را گنجا کجا باشد درو  900
  • O thou with whom my body and (all) my veins are filled—how should there be room therein for repentance?—

  • توبه را زین پس ز دل بیرون کنم  ** از حیات خلد توبه چون کنم 
  • Henceforth I will banish repentance from this heart (of mine): how should I repent of the life everlasting?”

  • عشق قهارست و من مقهور عشق  ** چون شکر شیرین شدم از شور عشق 
  • Love is the All-subduer, and I am subdued by Love: by Love's bitterness I have been made sweet as sugar.

  • برگ کاهم پیش تو ای تند باد  ** من چه دانم که کجا خواهم فتاد 
  • O fierce Wind, before Thee I am (but) a straw: how can I know where I shall fall?

  • گر هلالم گر بلالم می‌دوم  ** مقتدی آفتابت می‌شوم 
  • Whether I am (stout as) Bilál or (thin as) the new moon (hilál), I am running on and following the course of Thy sun.

  • ماه را با زفتی و زاری چه کار  ** در پی خورشید پوید سایه‌وار  905
  • What has the moon to do with stoutness and thinness? She runs at the heels of the sun, like a shadow.

  • با قضا هر کو قراری می‌دهد  ** ریش‌خند سبلت خود می‌کند 
  • Any one who offers to make a settlement with (the Divine) destiny is mocking at his own moustache.

  • کاه‌برگی پیش باد آنگه قرار  ** رستخیزی وانگهانی عزم‌کار 
  • A straw in the face of the wind, and then (the idea of) a settlement! A Resurrection (going on), and then the resolve to act (independently)!

  • گربه در انبانم اندر دست عشق  ** یک‌دمی بالا و یک‌دم پست عشق 
  • In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a bag, now lifted high and now flung low by Love.

  • او همی‌گرداندم بر گرد سر  ** نه به زیر آرام دارم نه زبر 
  • He is whirling me round His head: I have no rest either below or aloft.

  • عاشقان در سیل تند افتاده‌اند  ** بر قضای عشق دل بنهاده‌اند  910
  • The lovers (of God) have fallen into a fierce torrent: they have set their hearts on (resigned themselves to) the ordinance of Love.

  • هم‌چو سنگ آسیا اندر مدار  ** روز و شب گردان و نالان بی‌قرار 
  • (They are) like the millstone turning, day and night, in (continual) revolution and moaning incessantly.

  • گردشش بر جوی جویان شاهدست  ** تا نگوید کس که آن جو راکدست 
  • Its turning is evidence for those who seek the River, lest any one should say that the River is motionless.