Inasmuch as they (the Hypocrites) were left in the lurch by the light of (Divine) inspiration, they once more began to recite oaths anew.2885
چون ز نور وحی در میماندند ** باز نو سوگندها میخواندند
Since God calls an oath a shield, how should the quarreller lay down the shield from his hand?
چون خدا سوگند را خواند سپر ** کی نهد اسپر ز کف پیکارگر
Again the Prophet, giving (them) the lie direct, said to them in plain terms, “Ye have lied.”
باز پیغمبر به تکذیب صریح ** قد کذبتم گفت با ایشان فصیح
How one of the Companions—may God be well-pleased with them!—thought (to himself) disapprovingly, “Why does not the Prophet—God bless and save him!—throw a veil (over their hypocrisy)?”
اندیشیدن یکی از صحابه به انکار که رسول (ص) چرا ستاری نمیکند
(Their request was ignominiously refused), so that one of the Prophet's Companions conceived in his heart dislike of that recoilment,
تا یکی یاری ز یاران رسول ** در دلش انکار آمد ز آن نکول
Thinking, “Grey-haired and venerable old men like these— this Prophet is putting them to shame.
که چنین پیران با شیب و وقار ** میکندشان این پیمبر شرمسار
Where is generosity? Where cloaking (of sins)? Where modesty (respect for the feelings of others)? The prophets cover up hundreds of thousands of faults.”2890
کو کرم کو ستر پوشی کو حیا ** صد هزاران عیب پوشند انبیا
Quickly, again, in his heart he asked pardon of God, lest he should be disgraced for objecting (to the Prophet's behaviour).
باز در دل زود استغفار کرد ** تا نگردد ز اعتراض او روی زرد
The turpitude of befriending the Hypocrites made the true believer wicked and rebellious like them.
شومی یاری اصحاب نفاق ** کرد مومن را چو ایشان زشت و عاق
Again he was crying in supplication, “O Thou who knowest the inmost consciousness, do not leave me persisting in unbelief!
باز میزارید کای علام سر ** مر مرا مگذار بر کفران مصر
My heart is not in my control, as (my) eyesight (is); else I would at this moment burn my heart in anger.”
دل به دستم نیست همچون دید چشم ** ور نه دل را سوزمی این دم به خشم