Forasmuch as you are too dull to apprehend these wonders (of God), if you say “yea” you will be prevaricating;
چون ز فهم این عجایب کودنی ** گر بلی گویی تکلف می‌کنی
And if you say “nay,” the “nay” will behead (undo) you: on account of that “nay” (the Divine) Wrath will shut your (spiritual) window.3750
ور بگویی نی زند نی گردنت ** قهر بر بندد بدان نی روزنت
Be, then, only dumbfounded and distraught, nothing else, that God's aid may come in from before and behind.
پس همین حیران و واله باش و بس ** تا درآید نصر حق از پیش و پس
When you have become dumbfounded and crazed and naughted, you have said with mute eloquence, “Lead us.”
چونک حیران گشتی و گیج و فنا ** با زبان حال گفتی اهدنا
It (the wrath of God) is mighty, mighty; but when you begin to tremble, that mighty (wrath) becomes assuaged and equable,
زفت زفتست و چو لرزان می‌شوی ** می‌شود آن زفت نرم و مستوی
Because the mighty shape is for (terrifying) the unbeliever; when you have become helpless, it is mercy and kindness.
زانک شکل زفت بهر منکرست ** چونک عاجز آمدی لطف و برست
How Gabriel, on whom be peace, showed himself to Mustafá (Mohammed), God bless and save him, in his own shape; and how, when one of his seven hundred wings became visible, it covered the horizon (on all sides), and the sun with all its radiance was veiled over.
نمودن جبرئیل علیه‌السلام خود را به مصطفی صلی‌الله علیه و سلم به صورت خویش و از هفتصد پر او چون یک پر ظاهر شد افق را بگرفت و آفتاب محجوب شد با همه شعاعش
Mustafá said in the presence of Gabriel, “Even as thy shape (really) is, O friend,3755
مصطفی می‌گفت پیش جبرئیل ** که چنانک صورت تست ای خلیل
Show it to me sensibly and visibly, that I may behold thee as spectators (who fix their eyes on an object of interest).”
مر مرا بنما تو محسوس آشکار ** تا ببینم مر ترا نظاره‌وار
He replied, “Thou canst not (bear this) and hast not the power to endure it; the sense (of sight) is weak and frail: ’twould be grievous for thee (to behold me).”
گفت نتوانی و طاقت نبودت ** حس ضعیفست و تنک سخت آیدت
“Show thyself,” said he, “that this body may perceive to what an extent the senses are frail and resourceless.”
گفت بنما تا ببیند این جسد ** تا چد حد حس نازکست و بی‌مدد