In your haste you hid the knife under the soil, because of the terrible apparition which you beheld.2480
کارد از اشتاب کردی زیر خاک ** از خیالی که بدیدی سهمناک
Lo, his head together with the knife is under the soil! Dig ye back the soil, thus!
نک سرش با کارد در زیر زمین ** باز کاوید این زمین را همچنین
On the knife, too, the name of this dog is written, (who) dealt with his master so deceitfully and injuriously.”
نام این سگ هم نبشته کارد بر ** کرد با خواجه چنین مکر و ضرر
They did even so (as he ordered), and when they cleft (the earth) they found in the soil the knife and the head.
همچنان کردند چون بشکافتند ** در زمین آن کارد و سر را یافتند
Thereupon tumultuous lamentation arose amongst the people:every one severed the girdle (of unbelief) from his waist.
ولوله در خلق افتاد آن زمان ** هر یکی زنار ببرید از میان
Alter that, he (David) said to him (the murderer), “Come,O demander of justice, (and) with that black face (of yours) receive the justice due to you!’2485
بعد از آن گفتش بیا ای دادخواه ** داد خود بستان بدان روی سیاه
How David, on whom be peace, ordered that retaliation should be taken on the murderer after his conviction.
قصاص فرمودن داود علیه السلام خونی را بعد از الزام حجت برو
He ordered retaliation (by killing him) with that same knife: how should contrivance deliver him from the knowledge of God?
هم بدان تیغش بفرمود او قصاص ** کی کند مکرش ز علم حق خلاص
Although God’s clemency bestows (many) kindnesses, yet when he (the sinner) has gone beyond bounds, He exposes (him).
حلم حق گرچه مواساها کند ** لیک چون از حد بشد پیدا کند
Blood sleepeth not: the desire to investigate and lay bare (discover the solution of) a difficulty falls into every heart.
خون نخسپد درفتد در هر دلی ** میل جست و جوی و کشف مشکلی
The craving prompted by the ordainment of the Lord of the Judgement springs up in the conscience of all and sundry