(Yet if) I cast a baked (clay) pellet the size of a hazelnut, my pellet in its effect is like (equal to) a hundred mangonels (ballistas).”
قدر فندق افکنم بندق حریق ** بندقم در فعل صد چون منجنیق
Moses came to battle with his one rod and made an onset against Pharaoh and (all) his swords.350
موسی آمد در وغا با یک عصاش ** زد بر آن فرعون و بر شمشیرهاش
Every Prophet who by himself has knocked at that door (and besought God to help him) has alone (single-handed) fought (victoriously) against the whole world.
هر رسولی یک تنه کان در زده ست ** بر همه آفاق تنها بر زده ست
When Noah begged of Him (God) a sword, through Him (at His command) the waves of the Flood became of sword-like temper.
نوح چون شمشیر در خواهید ازو ** موج طوفان گشت از او شمشیر خو
O Ahmad (Mohammed), who (what) indeed are the armies of the earth? Behold the moon in heaven (and) split her brow,
احمدا خود کیست اسپاه زمین ** ماه بین بر چرخ و بشکافش جبین
In order that the ignorant astronomer may know that this cycle is thy cycle, not the cycle of the moon.
تا بداند سعد و نحس بیخبر ** دور تست این دور نه دور قمر
It is thy cycle, because (even) Moses, he who spoke (with God), was constantly yearning after this cycle of thine.355
دور تست ایرا که موسای کلیم ** آرزو میبرد زین دورت مقیم
When Moses beheld the splendour of thy cycle, in which the dawn of Revelation was arising,
چون که موسی رونق دور تو دید ** کاندر او صبح تجلی میدمید
He said, “O Lord, what cycle of mercy is that? It is beyond mercy: there (in that cycle) is vision (of Thee).
گفت یا رب آن چه دور رحمت است ** بر گذشت از رحمت آن جا رویت است
Plunge Thy Moses in the seas (of Time) and bring him up (to the surface) from the midst of the cycle of Ahmad (Mohammed).”
غوطه ده موسای خود را در بحار ** از میان دورهی احمد بر آر