If you scrutinise the labour of them that follow falsehood, (you will se that) it is stinking, coat upon coat, like an onion—2900
گر بکاوی کوشش اهل مجاز ** تو به تو گنده بود همچون پیاز
Every one (of their efforts) more pithless than another, (while), in the case of the sincere, (every effort) is more excellent than the other.
هر یکی از یکدیگر بیمغزتر ** صادقان را یک ز دیگر نغزتر
Those folk (the Hypocrites) tied a hundred belts on their mantles in order to destroy the Mosque of the people of Qubá—
صد کمر آن قوم بسته بر قبا ** بهر هدم مسجد اهل قبا
Even as the Lords of the Elephant (who abode) in Abyssinia made a Ka‘ba, (but) God set it afire;
همچو آن اصحاب فیل اندر حبش ** کعبهای کردند حق آتش زدش
(And then) they (the Abyssinians) made an attempt on the Ka‘ba in revenge: read from the Word (of God) how they fared!
قصد کعبه ساختند از انتقام ** حالشان چون شد فرو خوان از کلام
The reprobates of the Religion have indeed no equipment but cunning and deceit and contentiousness.2905
مر سیه رویان دین را خود جهیز ** نیست الا حیلت و مکر و ستیز
Every Companion saw plainly (in sleep) some vision of that Mosque, so that the secret (purpose) of it became to them certain knowledge.
هر صحابی دید ز آن مسجد عیان ** واقعه تا شد یقینشان سر آن
If I should relate the visions, one by one, then the purity (of the Companions) would become certain to them that doubt;
واقعات ار باز گویم یک به یک ** پس یقین گردد صفا بر اهل شک
But I am afraid of revealing their mystery: they are the disdainful loved ones (of God), and disdain beseems them.
لیک میترسم ز کشف رازشان ** نازنینانند و زیبد نازشان
They have received the (religious) Law (directly from God) without mechanical imitation (of others): they have taken that (unadulterated) coin without (applying) the touchstone.
شرع بیتقلید میپذرفتهاند ** بیمحک آن نقد را بگرفتهاند