When the (Divine) destiny comes, it muffles the sight, so that our intellect cannot distinguish foot from head.2440
چون قضا آید فرو پوشد بصر ** تا نداند عقل ما پا را ز سر
As soon as the destiny is past, it (the intellect) devours itself (with grief): rending the veil (without regard for appearances), it tears its bosom.
چون قضا بگذشت خود را میخورد ** پرده بدریده گریبان میدرد
The man said, “O wife, I am repenting: if I have been an infidel, I will (now) become a Moslem.
مرد گفت ای زن پشیمان میشوم ** گر بدم کافر مسلمان میشوم
I am a sinner against thee: have mercy, do not dig me up all at once from root and foundation (do not bring me to utter ruin).”
من گنهکارم توام رحمی بکن ** بر مکن یک بارگیم از بیخ و بن
If the old infidel is repenting, he becomes a Moslem when he pleads for pardon.
کافر پیر ار پشیمان میشود ** چون که عذر آرد مسلمان میشود
He (God) is the merciful and bountiful Lord: both existence and non-existence are in love with Him.2445
حضرت پر رحمت است و پر کرم ** عاشق او هم وجود و هم عدم
(Both) infidelity and faith are lovers of that Majesty, both copper and silver are slaves to that Elixir.
کفر و ایمان عاشق آن کبریا ** مس و نقره بندهی آن کیمیا
Explaining that both Moses and Pharaoh are subject to the Divine Will, like poison and antidote and darkness and light, and how Pharaoh conversed in solitude with God, praying that He would not destroy his (good) reputation.
در بیان آن که موسی و فرعون هر دو مسخر مشیتاند چنان که زهر و پادزهر و ظلمات و نور و مناجات کردن فرعون به خلوت تا ناموس نشکند
Moses and Pharaoh were servants (worshippers) of Reality, (though) outwardly the former keeps the way (is rightly guided), while the latter has lost the way.
موسی و فرعون معنی را رهی ** ظاهر آن ره دارد و این بیرهی
In the daytime Moses was making lament (supplication) to God: at midnight Pharaoh would begin to weep,
روز موسی پیش حق نالان شده ** نیم شب فرعون گریان آمده
Saying, “O God, what shackle is this on my neck? Were it not for the shackle, who would say ‘I am I’?
کاین چه غل است ای خدا بر گردنم ** ور نه غل باشد که گوید من منم