“O Ayáz, pass sentence on the culprits! O incorruptible Ayáz who takest infinite precautions (to keep thyself pure),
کن میان مجرمان حکم ای ایاز ** ای ایاز پاک با صد احتراز
Though I boil (test) thee in practice two hundred times, I do not find any refuse in the foam of thy boiling.2110
گر دو صد بارت بجوشم در عمل ** در کف جوشت نیابم یک دغل
A countless multitude of people are ashamed of (being put to) the test, (but) all tests are ashamed of (being tried on) thee.
ز امتحان شرمنده خلقی بی‌شمار ** امتحانها از تو جمله شرمسار
It (thy knowledge) is a bottomless ocean: it is not (creaturely) knowledge alone; it (thy forbearance) is a mountain and a hundred mountains: indeed, it is not (creaturely) forbearance.”
بحر بی‌قعرست تنها علم نیست ** کوه و صد کوهست این خود حلم نیست
He (Ayáz) replied, “I know that this is thy gift; otherwise I am (nothing except) those rustic shoon and that sheepskin jacket.”
گفت من دانم عطای تست این ** ورنه من آن چارقم و آن پوستین
Hence the Prophet expounded this (matter), (when he said), “Whoso knoweth himself knoweth God.”
بهر آن پیغامبر این را شرح ساخت ** هر که خود بشناخت یزدان را شناخت
The seed (from which you were conceived) is your shoon, and your blood is the sheepskin jacket: (all) the rest, O master, is His gift.2115
چارقت نطفه‌ست و خونت پوستین ** باقی ای خواجه عطای اوست این
He hath given it to you in order that you may seek more: do not say, “He has only this amount (to give).”
بهر آن دادست تا جویی دگر ** تو مگو که نیستش جز این قدر
The gardener shows a number of apples, to the end that you may know the trees and produce of the orchard.
زان نماید چند سیب آن باغبان ** تا بدانی نخل و دخل بوستان
He (the wheat-merchant) gives the purchaser a handful of wheat, in order that he may know (the quality of) the wheat in the granary.
کف گندم زان دهد خریار را ** تا بداند گندم انبار را