Just as Thee we worship in yearning entreaty, (so) in tribulation we ask help of none but Thee.
هم‌چنانک ایاک نعبد در حنین ** در بلا از غیر تو لانستعین
This Thee we worship is (used) idiomatically for the purpose of (expressing) appropriation, and that (appropriation) is for the purpose of negating hypocrisy.2930
هست این ایاک نعبد حصر را ** در لغت و آن از پی نفی ریا
Of Thee we ask help also is for the purpose of appropriation: he (who recites these words) appropriates and restricts the asking of help,
هست ایاک نستعین هم بهر حصر ** حصر کرده استعانت را و قصر
Meaning, “We perform worship to Thee alone; we have hope of help from Thee alone.”
که عبادت مر ترا آریم و بس ** طمع یاری هم ز تو داریم و بس
How a king was enraged with his boon-companion, and an intercessor interceded on behalf of the object of (the king's) anger and begged the king (to pardon the offender); and how (when) the king accepted his intercession, the boon-companion resented the action of the intercessor and asked, "Why did you intercede?"
خشم کردن پادشاه بر ندیم و شفاعت کردن شفیع آن مغضوب علیه را و از پادشاه درخواستن و پادشاه شفاعت او قبول کردن و رنجیدن ندیم از این شفیع کی چرا شفاعت کردی
A king was enraged with a boon-companion and was about to reduce him to smoke and dust.
پادشاهی بر ندیمی خشم کرد ** خواست تا از وی برآرد دود و گرد
The king drew his sword from the scabbard that he might inflict upon him the punishment for that disobedience.
کرد شه شمشیر بیرون از غلاف ** تا زند بر وی جزای آن خلاف
No one had the courage to utter a word nor any intercessor to venture on intercession,2935
هیچ کس را زهره نه تا دم زند ** یا شفیعی بر شفاعت بر تند
Except one amongst the courtiers named ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk, (who was) privileged in respect of intercession, like Mustafá (Mohammed).
جز عمادالملک نامی در خواص ** در شفاعت مصطفی‌وارانه خاص
He sprang up and at once prostrated himself: the king immediately put away from his hand the sword of vengeance,
بر جهید و زود در سجده فتاد ** در زمان شه تیغ قهر از کف نهاد
And said, “If he is the (very) Devil, I forgive him; and if he has done a satanic deed, I cover it up.
گفت اگر دیوست من بخشیدمش ** ور بلیسی کرد من پوشیدمش