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  • God said (to me), ‘Have patience with their iniquity: give them counsel, not much remains of their (allotted) period.’
  • حق بگفته صبر کن بر جورشان ** پندشان ده بس نماند از دورشان‌‌

  • I said, ‘Counsel is barred by ill-treatment: the milk of counsel gushes forth from love and joy.
  • من بگفته پند شد بند از جفا ** شیر پند از مهر جوشد وز صفا

  • Much ill-treatment have ye bestowed on me, (so that) the milk of counsel is curdled in my veins.’
  • بس که کردید از جفا بر جای من ** شیر پند افسرد در رگهای من‌‌

  • God said to me, ‘I will give thee a boon, I will lay a plaster on those wounds (of thine).’ 2550
  • حق مرا گفته ترا لطفی دهم ** بر سر آن زخمها مرهم نهم‌‌

  • God made my heart clear as the sky, He swept your oppression out of my mind.
  • صاف کرده حق دلم را چون سما ** روفته از خاطرم جور شما

  • I went (back) once more to admonition, I spake parables and words (sweet) as sugar,
  • در نصیحت من شده بار دگر ** گفته امثال و سخنها چون شکر

  • I produced fresh milk from the sugar, I mingled milk and honey with my words.
  • شیر تازه از شکر انگیخته ** شیر و شهدی با سخن آمیخته‌‌

  • In you those words became like poison, because ye were filled with poison from the root and foundation.
  • در شما چون زهر گشته آن سخن ** ز آن که زهرستان بدید از بیخ و بن‌‌

  • How should I be grieved that grief is overthrown? Ye were grief (to me), O obstinate people. 2555
  • چون شوم غمگین که غم شد سر نگون ** غم شما بودید ای قوم حرون‌‌

  • Does any one lament the death of grief? Does any one tear out his hair when the sore on his head is removed?”
  • هیچ کس بر مرگ غم نوحه کند ** ریش سر چون شد کسی مو بر کند

  • (Then) he turned to himself and said, “O mourner, those folk are not worth thy mourning.”
  • رو به خود کرد و بگفت ای نوحه‌‌گر ** نوحه‌‌ات را می‌‌نیرزد آن نفر

  • Do not recite incorrectly, O thou who recitest correctly the perspicuous (Qur'án) “Say, how shall I be grieved for an unjust people?”
  • کژ مخوان ای راست خواننده‌‌ی مبین ** کیف آسی قل لقوم ظالمین‌‌

  • Again he felt a weeping in his eye and heart: an uncaused (involuntary) compassion shone forth in him.
  • باز اندر چشم و دل او گریه یافت ** رحمتی بی‌‌علتی در وی بتافت‌‌

  • He was raining drops of water (shedding tears)—and he had become distraught— an uncaused drop from the Ocean of Bounty. 2560
  • قطره می‌‌بارید و حیران گشته بود ** قطره‌‌ی بی‌‌علت از دریای جود

  • His intellect was saying, “Wherefore is this weeping? Ought one to weep for such scoffers?
  • عقل او می‌‌گفت کین گریه ز چیست ** بر چنان افسوسیان شاید گریست‌‌

  • Tell me, what art thou weeping for? For their fraud? For the host of (their) ill-omened exactions of vengeance?
  • بر چه می‌‌گریی بگو بر فعلشان ** بر سپاه کینه توز بدنشان‌‌

  • For their murky hearts full of rust? For their venomous snake-like tongues?
  • بر دل تاریک پر زنگارشان ** بر زبان زهر همچون مارشان‌‌

  • For their sagsár-like breath and teeth? For their mouths and eyes teeming with scorpions?
  • بر دم و دندان سگسارانه‌‌شان ** بر دهان و چشم کژدم خانه‌‌شان‌‌

  • For their wrangling and sneering and scoffing? Give thanks, since God has imprisoned (restrained) them. 2565
  • بر ستیز و تسخر و افسوسشان ** شکر کن چون کرد حق محبوسشان‌‌

  • Their hands are perverse, their feet perverse, their eyes perverse, their love perverse, their peace perverse, their anger perverse.”
  • دستشان کژ پایشان کژ چشم کژ ** مهرشان کژ صلح‌‌شان کژ خشم کژ

  • For the sake of blind conformity and (for the sake of following) traditional ideas, they set their feet (trampled) on the camels of Reason, this venerable Guide.
  • از پی تقلید و معقولات نقل ** پا نهاده بر جمال پیر عقل‌‌

  • They were not eager for a guide (pír-khar): they all had become (like) an old donkey (pír khar) from paying hypocritical observance to each other's eyes and ears.
  • پیر خر نی جمله گشته پیر خر ** از ریای چشم و گوش همدگر

  • God brought the (devout) worshippers from Paradise that He might show unto them the nurslings of Hell-fire.
  • از بهشت آورد یزدان بردگان ** تا نمایدشان سقر پروردگان‌‌

  • On the meaning of “He let the two seas go to meet one another: between them is a barrier which they do not seek (to cross).”
  • در معنی آن که مرج البحرين يلتقیان بينهما برزخ لا يبغیان

  • Behold the people of (destined for) the Fire and those of Paradise dwelling in the same shop, (yet) between them is a barrier which they do not seek to cross. 2570
  • اهل نار و خلد را بین هم دکان ** در میانشان برزخ لا یبغیان‌‌

  • He hath mixed the people of the Fire and the people of the Light: between them He hath reared the mountain of Qáf.
  • اهل نار و اهل نور آمیخته ** در میانشان کوه قاف انگیخته‌‌