- Saying, “Begone, O old man! What is this search after that Mohammed by whom we are deposed?
- که برو ای پیر این چه جست و جوست ** آن محمد را که عزل ما ازوست
- By him we are overthrown and reduced to a collection of (broken) stones; by him we are made unsaleable and valueless.
- ما نگون و سنگسار آییم ازو ** ما کساد و بیعیار آییم ازو
- Those phantoms which the followers of vain opinion used to see from us at times during the Fatra
- آن خیالاتی که دیدندی ز ما ** وقت فترت گاه گاه اهل هوا
- Will disappear now that his royal court has arrived: the water is come and has torn up (annulled) the ablution with sand.
- گم شود چون بارگاه او رسید ** آب آمد مر تیمم را درید
- Get thee far off, O old man! Do not kindle mischief! Hark, do not burn us with (the fire of) Ahmad's (Mohammed's) jealousy! 960
- دور شو ای پیر فتنه کم فروز ** هین ز رشک احمدی ما را مسوز
- Get thee far off, for God's sake, O old man, lest thou (too) be burnt by the fire of Fore-ordainment.
- دور شو بهر خدا ای پیر تو ** تا نسوزی ز آتش تقدیر تو
- What squeezing of the dragon's tail is this? Dost thou know at all what the announcement (of Mohammed's advent) is (in its effects)?
- این چه دم اژدها افشردنست ** هیچ دانی چه خبر آوردنست
- At this news the heart of sea and mine will surge; at this news the seven heavens will tremble.”
- زین خبر جوشد دل دریا و کان ** زین خبر لرزان شود هفت آسمان
- When the old man heard these words from the stones (idols), the ancient old man let his staff drop (from his hand);
- چون شنید از سنگها پیر این سخن ** پس عصا انداخت آن پیر کهن
- Then, from tremor and fear and dread caused by that proclamation (of the idols), the old man was striking his teeth together. 965
- پس ز لرزه و خوف و بیم آن ندا ** پیر دندانها به هم بر میزدی