- (The text) do not punish (us) if we forget is evidence that forgetfulness too, in a certain way, is sinful,
- لاتاخذ ان نسینا شد گواه ** که بود نسیان بوجهی هم گناه
- Because he (who was forgetful) did not attain to complete reverence, or else forgetfulness would not have assailed him
- زانک استکمال تعظیم او نکرد ** ورنه نسیان در نیاوردی نبرد
- Although (his) forgetfulness was necessary and inevitable, (yet) he was a free agent in employing the means (by which it was produced);
- گرچه نسیان لابد و ناچار بود ** در سبب ورزیدن او مختار بود
- For he showed remissness in his feelings of reverence, so that forgetfulness was born or negligence and trespass.
- که تهاون کرد در تعظیمها ** تا که نسیان زاد یا سهو و خطا
- (‘Tis) like (the case of) the drunken man who commits sins and says, “I was excused from (responsibility for) myself” 4105
- هم‌چو مستی کو جنایتها کند ** گوید او معذور بودم من ز خود
- “But,” says he (the other) to him, “the cause (of your sin), (consisting) in the loss of that power to choose, proceeded from you, O evil-doer.
- گویدش لیکن سبب ای زشتکار ** از تو بد در رفتن آن اختیار
- Your senselessness did not come of itself, you invited it; your power to choose did not go of itself, you drove it away.
- بی‌خودی نامد بخود تش خواندی ** اختیارت خود نشد تش راندی
- If an intoxication had come (upon you) without exertion on your part, the spiritual Cup-bearer would have kept your covenant (inviolate).
- گر رسیدی مستی بی‌جهد تو ** حفظ کردی ساقی جان عهد تو
- He would have been your backer and intercessor: I am devoted to the sin of him who is intoxicated by God.”
- پشت‌دارت بودی او و عذرخواه ** من غلام زلت مست اله
- (Ayáz said), “The forgivenesses of the whole world are (but) a mote—the reflexion of thy forgiveness, O thou from whom comes, every fortune. 4110
- عفوهای جمله عالم ذره‌ای ** عکس عفوت ای ز تو هر بهره‌ای