Rumi's Masnavi - Their eyes starting out (of the sockets) from (dread of) the danger, and streaming like ten fountains from fear of the appointed end;

Their eyes starting out (of the sockets) from (dread of) the danger, and streaming like ten fountains from fear of the appointed end;

چشمها بیرون جهید از خطر ** گشته ده چشمه ز بیم مستقر

Their eyes remaining in (fearful) expectation, lest the scroll (of their deeds) come (to them) from the left side;

باز مانده دیده‌ها در انتظار ** تا که نامه ناید از سوی یسار

Their eyes rolling to right and left, because the fortune of the scroll (that comes) from the right (side) is not easy (to win). 1805

چشم گردان سوی راست و سوی چپ ** زانک نبود بخت نامه‌ی راست زپ

(Then) there comes into the hand of (such) a servant (of God) a scroll headed with black and cram-full of crime and wickedness;

نامه‌ای آید به دست بنده‌ای ** سر سیه از جرم و فسق آگنده‌ای

Containing not a single good deed or act of saving grace— nothing but wounds inflicted on the hearts of the saintly;

اندرو یک خیر و یک توفیق نه ** جز که آزار دل صدیق نه

Filled from top to bottom with foulness and sin, with mockery and jeering at the followers of the Way,

پر ز سر تا پای زشتی و گناه ** تسخر و خنبک زدن بر اهل راه

(With all) his rascalities and thieveries and Pharaoh-like expressions of self-glorification.

آن دغل‌کاری و دزدیهای او ** و آن چو فرعونان انا و انای او

When that odious man reads his scroll, he knows that he is (virtually) on the road to prison. 1810

چون بخواند نامه‌ی خود آن ثقیل ** داند او که سوی زندان شد رحیل

Then he sets out, like robbers going to the gallows; his crime manifest, and the way (possibility) of excusing himself barred.

پس روان گردد چو دزدان سوی دار ** جرم پیدا بسته راه اعتذار

The thousands of bad pleas and (false) speeches (made during his life) have become like an evil nail (seal) on his mouth.

آن هزاران حجت و گفتار بد ** بر دهانش گشته چون مسمار بد