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  • He even showeth Himself to (our) hearts, He seweth the tattered frock of the dervish. 685
  • او نماید هم به دلها خویش را ** او بدوزد خرقه‌‌ی درویش را

  • Simple were we and all one substance; we were all without head and without foot yonder.
  • منبسط بودیم و یک جوهر همه ** بی‌‌سر و بی‌‌پا بدیم آن سر همه‌‌

  • We were one substance, like the Sun; we were knotless and pure, like water.
  • یک گهر بودیم همچون آفتاب ** بی‌‌گره بودیم و صافی همچو آب‌‌

  • When that goodly Light took form, it became (many in) number like the shadows of a battlement.
  • چون به صورت آمد آن نور سره ** شد عدد چون سایه‌‌های کنگره‌‌

  • Rase ye the battlement with the manjaníq (mangonel), that difference may vanish from amidst this company (of shadows).
  • کنگره ویران کنید از منجنیق ** تا رود فرق از میان این فریق‌‌

  • I would have explained this (matter) with (eager) contention, but I fear lest some (weak) mind may stumble. 690
  • شرح این را گفتمی من از مری ** لیک ترسم تا نلغزد خاطری‌‌

  • The points (involved in it) are sharp as a sword of steel; if you have not the shield (of capacity to understand), turn back and flee!
  • نکته‌‌ها چون تیغ پولاد است تیز ** گر نداری تو سپر واپس گریز

  • Do not come without shield against this adamant (keen blade), for the sword is not ashamed of cutting.
  • پیش این الماس بی‌‌اسپر میا ** کز بریدن تیغ را نبود حیا

  • For this cause I have put the sword in sheath, that none who misreads may read contrariwise (in a sense contrary to the true meaning of my words).
  • زین سبب من تیغ کردم در غلاف ** تا که کج خوانی نخواند بر خلاف‌‌

  • We come (now) to complete the tale and (speak) of the loyalty of the multitude of the righteous,
  • آمدیم اندر تمامی داستان ** وز وفاداری جمع راستان‌‌

  • Who rose up after (the death of) this leader, demanding a vicar in his place. 695
  • کز پس این پیشوا برخاستند ** بر مقامش نایبی می‌‌خواستند

  • The quarrel of the amírs concerning the succession.
  • منازعت امرا در ولیعهدی

  • One of those amírs advanced and went before that loyal-minded people.
  • یک امیری ز آن امیران پیش رفت ** پیش آن قوم وفا اندیش رفت‌‌

  • “Behold,” said he, “I am that man's vicar: I am the vicar of Jesus at the present time.
  • گفت اینک نایب آن مرد من ** نایب عیسی منم اندر زمن‌‌

  • Look, this scroll is my proof that after him the vicarate belongs to me.”
  • اینک این طومار برهان من است ** کاین نیابت بعد از او آن من است‌‌

  • Another amír came forth from ambush: his pretension regarding the vicegerency was the same;
  • آن امیر دیگر آمد از کمین ** دعوی او در خلافت بد همین‌‌

  • He too produced a scroll from under his arm, so that in both (amírs) there arose the Jewish anger. 700
  • از بغل او نیز طوماری نمود ** تا بر آمد هر دو را خشم جهود

  • The rest of the amírs, one after another, drawing swords of keen mettle,
  • آن امیران دگر یک یک قطار ** بر کشیده تیغهای آب دار

  • Each with a sword and a scroll in his hand, fell to combat like raging elephants.
  • هر یکی را تیغ و طوماری به دست ** درهم‌‌افتادند چون پیلان مست‌‌

  • Hundreds of thousands of Christians were slain, so that there were mounds of severed heads;
  • صد هزاران مرد ترسا کشته شد ** تا ز سرهای بریده پشته شد

  • Blood flowed, on left and right, like a torrent; mountains of this dust (of battle) rose in the air.
  • خون روان شد همچو سیل از چپ و راست ** کوه کوه اندر هوا زین گرد خاست‌‌

  • The seeds of dissension which he (the vizier) had sown had become a calamity (cause of destruction) to their heads. 705
  • تخمهای فتنه‌‌ها کاو کشته بود ** آفت سرهای ایشان گشته بود

  • The walnuts (bodies) were broken, and those which had the kernel had, after being slain, a spirit pure and fair.
  • جوزها بشکست و آن کان مغز داشت ** بعد کشتن روح پاک نغز داشت‌‌

  • Slaughter and death which befalls the bodily frame is like breaking pomegranates and apples:
  • کشتن و مردن که بر نقش تن است ** چون انار و سیب را بشکستن است‌‌

  • That which is sweet becomes pomegranate-syrup, and that which is rotten is naught but noise:
  • آن چه شیرین است او شد ناردانگ ** و آن که پوسیده ست نبود غیر بانگ‌‌

  • That which has reality is made manifest (after death), and that which is rotten is put to shame.
  • آن چه با معنی است خود پیدا شود ** و آن چه پوسیده ست او رسوا شود