- He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.
- در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست
- He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
- در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمییابم رسن
- I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed. 3820
- بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود
- (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
- این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است
- They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.
- خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست
- Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).
- چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بندهی غول نیست
- (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.
- گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر
- “Since I am free, how should anger bind me? Nothing is here but Divine qualities. Come in! 3825
- چون که حرم خشم کی بندد مرا ** نیست اینجا جز صفات حق در آ
- Come in, for the grace of God hath made thee free, because His mercy had the precedence over His wrath.
- اندر آ کازاد کردت فضل حق ** ز آن که رحمت داشت بر خشمش سبق
- Come in now, for thou hast escaped from the peril: thou wert a (common) stone, the Elixir hath made thee a jewel.
- اندر آ اکنون که رستی از خطر ** سنگ بودی کیمیا کردت گهر
- Thou hast been delivered from unbelief and its thorn-thicket: blossom like a rose in the cypress-garden of Hú (God).
- رستهای از کفر و خارستان او ** چون گلی بشکفته در بستان هو
- Thou art I and I am thou, O illustrious one: thou wert ‘Alí— how should I kill ‘Alí?
- تو منی و من توام ای محتشم ** تو علی بودی علی را چون کشم
- Thou hast committed a sin better than any act of piety, thou hast traversed Heaven in a single moment.” 3830
- معصیت کردی به از هر طاعتی ** آسمان پیمودهای در ساعتی
- Very fortunate (was) the sin which the man committed: do not rose-leaves spring from a thorn?
- بس خجسته معصیت کان کرد مرد ** نی ز خاری بر دمد اوراق ورد
- Was not the sin of ‘Umar and his attempt on (the life of) the Prophet leading him to the gate of acceptance?
- نی گناه عمر و قصد رسول ** میکشیدش تا به درگاه قبول
- Was not Pharaoh because of the magic of the magicians drawing them (to himself), and did not (spiritual) fortune come to their aid?
- نی به سحر ساحران فرعونشان ** میکشید و گشت دولت عونشان
- Had it not been for their magic and denial (of Moses), who would have brought them to rebellious Pharaoh?
- گر نبودی سحرشان و آن جحود ** کی کشیدیشان به فرعون عنود
- How would they have seen the rod and the miracles? Disobedience (to God) became obedience, O disobedient people. 3835
- کی بدیدندی عصا و معجزات ** معصیت طاعت شد ای قوم عصات
- God hath smitten the neck of despair, inasmuch as sin has become like obedience.
- ناامیدی را خدا گردن زده است ** چون گنه مانند طاعت آمده ست
- Since He changes evil acts (into good), He makes it (the disobedience) an act of obedience in despite of slanderers (devils).
- چون مبدل میکند او سیئات ** طاعتیاش میکند رغم وشات
- By this (mercy of God) the stoned (accursed) Devil is driven away and bursts with envy and is cloven asunder.
- زین شود مرجوم شیطان رجیم ** و ز حسد او بطرقد گردد دو نیم
- He strives to foster a sin (in us) and by means of that sin bring us into a pit;
- او بکوشد تا گناهی پرورد ** ز آن گنه ما را به چاهی آورد
- When he sees that the sin has become an act of obedience (to God), there comes round for him an unblest hour. 3840
- چون ببیند کان گنه شد طاعتی ** گردد او را نامبارک ساعتی
- “Come in! I open the door to thee. Thou spattest (on me) and I give thee a present.
- اندر آ من در گشادم مر ترا ** تف زدی و تحفه دادم مر ترا
- Such things I am giving to the doer of iniquity: (thou seest) in what fashion I lay my head before the left foot.
- مر جفاگر را چنینها میدهم ** پیش پای چپ چه سان سر مینهم