The Prophet, (who drew inspiration) from the Unseen, explained this (matter) clearly in his marvellous discourses with ‘Alí.
گفت پیغامبر ز غیب این را جلی ** در مقالات نوادر با علی
“O Prophet of Allah, thou hast displayed (the truth of) thy prophetic mission completely, like the cloudless sun.
یا رسولالله رسالت را تمام ** تو نمودی همچو شمس بیغمام
Two hundred mothers never did (to their children) this which thou hast done (to me); Jesus by his (life-giving) spells never did (so much as this) to ‘Ázar (Lazarus).275
این که تو کردی دو صد مادر نکرد ** عیسی از افسونش با عازر نکرد
Lo, through thee, my soul hath been delivered from death: if ‘Ázar was revived by that breath (of Jesus), yet he died again.”
از تو جانم از اجل نک جان ببرد ** عازر ار شد زنده زان دم باز مرد
The Arab became the Prophet's guest that night: he drank half the milk of a single goat and (then) closed his lips.
گشت مهمان رسول آن شب عرب ** شیر یک بز نیمه خورد و بست لب
He (the Prophet) urged him to drink the milk and eat the scones. “By God,” said he, “in all sincerity I have eaten my fill.
کرد الحاحش بخور شیر و رقاق ** گفت گشتم سیر والله بینفاق
This is not hypocrisy or affectation and artifice: I have become fuller than I was yesternight.”
این تکلف نیست نی ناموس و فن ** سیرتر گشتم از آنک دوش من
All the people of the (Prophet's) house were left in astonishment (to think that) this lamp had been filled by this one drop of oil,280
در عجب ماندند جمله اهل بیت ** پر شد این قندیل زین یک قطره زیت
And that what is (only) a swift's (portion of) food should become the (means of) filling the belly of such an elephant.
آنچ قوت مرغ بابیلی بود ** سیری معدهی چنین پیلی شود
Whispering arose amongst the men and women—“That man who has the body of an elephant eats as little as a fly!”
فجفجه افتاد اندر مرد و زن ** قدر پشه میخورد آن پیلتن