His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.
ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود
Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just.2035
عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد
How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”
گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست
Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,
گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال
Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).
صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم
Thou hast seen from me hundreds of thousands of miracles, (and all the time) a hundred fancies and doubts and (vain) opinions were growing in thee.
صد هزاران معجزه دیدی ز من ** صد خیالت میفزود و شک و ظن
Thou wert sorely pressed by fancy and devilish suggestion, thou wert sneering at my prophethood.
از خیال و وسوسه تنگ آمدی ** طعن بر پیغمبریام میزدی
I raised up dust from the sea before your eyes, so that ye might be delivered from the wickedness of the people of Pharaoh.2040
گرد از دریا بر آوردم عیان ** تا رهیدیت از شر فرعونیان
During forty years the platter and tray (of food) came (to you) from heaven, and at my prayer the river ran from a rock.
ز آسمان چل سال کاسه و خوان رسید ** وز دعایم جویی از سنگی دوید
These (miracles) and a hundred times as many, and all these diverse (evidences), did not make that vain imagination fade away from thee, O cold (hard-hearted) man!
این و صد چندین و چندین گرم و سرد ** از تو ای سرد آن توهم کم نکرد
Through sorcery a calf lowed; (then) thou didst fall to worship, saying, ‘Thou art my God.’
بانگ زد گوسالهای از جادویی ** سجده کردی که خدای من تویی