So that this greatcoat on your body becomes cold as ice and biting as snow.
تا شود بر تنت این جبه‌ی شگرف ** سرد هم‌چون یخ گزنده هم‌چو برف
(This He does) in order that you may flee from the fox-fur and silk and take refuge from them with the intense cold.
تا گریزی از وشق هم از حریر ** زو پناه آری به سوی زمهریر
You are not the (statutory) two qullas (ewers), you are (only) one ewer: you have forgotten the (Divine) chastisement inflicted by an overshadowing cloud.2175
تو دو قله نیستی یک قله‌ای ** غافل از قصه‌ی عذاب ظله‌ای
In town and village, to (every) house and wall came the command of God, “Give no shade!
امر حق آمد به شهرستان و ده ** خانه و دیوار را سایه مده
Do not ward off the rain and the (heat of the) sun!” so that the people went in haste to that Apostle (Shu‘ayb),
مانع باران مباش و آفتاب ** تا بدان مرسل شدند امت شتاب
Crying, “We are dead for the most part: mercy, O Prince!” Read the rest of it in the book of commentary (on the Qur’án).
که بمردیم اغلب ای مهتر امان ** باقیش از دفتر تفسیر خوان
Since that deft-handed One made the rod (of Moses) a serpent, that instance is enough if you have any intelligence.
چون عصا را مار کرد آن چست‌دست ** گر ترا عقلیست آن نکته بس است
You possess (the faculty of) consideration, but it does not go deep (into the subject): it is a frozen spring and has stopped (flowing).2180
تو نظر داری ولیک امعانش نیست ** چشمه‌ی افسرده است و کرده ایست
Hence the (Divine) Artist who depicts thoughts is saying, “Consider deeply, O (My) servant.”
زین همی گوید نگارنده‌ی فکر ** که بکن ای بنده امعان نظر
He does not mean (to say), “Beat cold iron,” but (what He means is) “O (thou who art hard as) steel, devote thyself to David.”
آن نمی‌خواهد که آهن کوب سرد ** لیک ای پولاد بر داود گرد