- We knew not. Pardon us. Very deranged were the words that went out from us.
- ما ندانستیم ما را عفو کن ** بس پراکنده که رفت از ما سخن
- We who blindly brandish staffs cannot help breaking lamps.
- ما که کورانه عصاها میزنیم ** لاجرم قندیلها را بشکنیم
- We, like deaf men, without having heard a single thing spoken (to us), are answering idly from our own surmise. 435
- ما چو کران ناشنیده یک خطاب ** هرزه گویان از قیاس خود جواب
- We have not taken warning from Moses, who was made shamefaced by disbelief in a Khizr,
- ما ز موسی پند نگرفتیم کاو ** گشت از انکار خضری زرد رو
- Notwithstanding (that he had) an eye that sped aloft, and the light of his eye was piercing heaven.
- با چنان چشمی که بالا میشتافت ** نور چشمش آسمان را میشکافت
- O Moses (of this age), through foolishness the eye of a mill-mouse has fanatically set itself against thine eye.”
- کرده با چشمت تعصب موسیا ** از حماقت چشم موش آسیا
- The Shaykh said, “I forgive all that talk and palaver: it is lawful to you.
- شیخ فرمود آن همه گفتار و قال ** من بحل کردم شما را آن حلال
- The secret of this (matter) was that I besought God: consequently He showed me the right way, 440
- سر این آن بود کز حق خواستم ** لاجرم بنمود راه راستم
- And said, ‘Though that dinar is little, yet (the payment of) it is dependent on the boy's outcry.
- گفت آن دینار اگر چه اندک است ** لیک موقوف غریو کودک است
- Until the halwá-selling boy weeps, the sea of (My) mercy is not aroused’.”
- تا نگرید کودک حلوا فروش ** بحر رحمت در نمیآید به جوش