- How, then, hast thou sought to be higher than they, when thou art inferior to them in rank?”
- پس تو چون جستی ازیشان برتری ** چون برتبت تو ازیشان کمتری
- He replied, “If I tread on the third step, it will be imagined that I resemble ‘Umar;
- گفت اگر پایه‌ی سوم را بسپرم ** وهم آید که مثال عمرم
- (And if) I seek a seat on the second step, thou wilt say, ‘’Tis (the seat of) Abú Bakr, and (therefore) this one too is like him.’
- بر دوم پایه شوم من جای‌جو ** گویی بوبکرست و این هم مثل او
- This top (of the pulpit) is the place of Mustafá (Mohammed): no one will imagine that I am like that (spiritual) King.” 495
- هست این بالا مقام مصطفی ** وهم مثلی نیست با آن شه مرا
- Afterwards, (seated) in the preaching-place, that loving man kept silence till near the (time of the) afternoon-prayer.
- بعد از آن بر جای خطبه آن ودود ** تا به قرب عصر لب‌خاموش بود
- None dared to say “Come now, preach!” or to go forth from the mosque during that time.
- زهره نه کس را که گوید هین بخوان ** یا برون آید ز مسجد آن زمان
- An awe had settled (descended) on high and low (alike): the court and roof (of the mosque) had become filled with the Light of God.
- هیبتی بنشسته بد بر خاص و عام ** پر شده نور خدا آن صحن و بام
- Whoever possessed vision was beholding His Light; the blind man too was being heated by that Sun.
- هر که بینا ناظر نورش بدی ** کور زان خورشید هم گرم آمدی
- Hence, by reason of the heat, the blind man's eye was perceiving that there had arisen a Sun whose strength faileth not. 500
- پس ز گرمی فهم کردی چشم کور ** که بر آمد آفتابی بی‌فتور
- But this heat (unlike the heat of the terrestrial sun) opens the (inward) eye, that it may see the very substance of everything heard.
- لیک این گرمی گشاید دیده را ** تا ببیند عین هر بشنیده را