Plant the love of the holy ones within your spirit; do not give your heart (to aught) save to the love of them whose hearts are glad.
مهر پاکان در میان جان نشان ** دل مده الا به مهر دل خوشان
Go not to the neighbourhood of despair: there are hopes. Go not in the direction of darkness: there are suns.
کوی نومیدی مرو امیدهاست ** سوی تاریکی مرو خورشیدهاست
The heart leads you into the neighbourhood of the men of heart (the saints); the body leads you into the prison of water and earth.725
دل ترا در کوی اهل دل کشد ** تن ترا در حبس آب و گل کشد
Oh, give your heart food from (conversation with) one who is in accord with it; go, seek (spiritual) advancement from one who is advanced.
هین غذای دل بده از هم دلی ** رو بجو اقبال را از مقبلی
How honour was paid to the description of Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, which was mentioned in the Gospel.
تعظیم نعت مصطفی علیه السلام که مذکور بود در انجیل
The name of Mustafá was in the Gospel—(Mustafá) the chief of the prophets, the sea of purity.
بود در انجیل نام مصطفی ** آن سر پیغمبران بحر صفا
There was mention of his (external) characteristics and appearance; there was mention of his warring and fasting and eating.
بود ذکر حلیهها و شکل او ** بود ذکر غزو و صوم و اکل او
A party among the Christians, for the sake of the Divine reward, whenever (in reading the Gospel) they came to that name and allocution,
طایفهی نصرانیان بهر ثواب ** چون رسیدندی بدان نام و خطاب
Would bestow kisses on that noble name and stoop their faces towards that beauteous description.730
بوسه دادندی بر آن نام شریف ** رو نهادندی بر آن وصف لطیف
In this tribulation of which we have told, that party were secure from tribulation and dread,
اندر این فتنه که گفتیم آن گروه ** ایمن از فتنه بدند و از شکوه
Secure from the mischief of the amírs and the vizier, seeking refuge in the protection of the Name of Ahmad (Mohammed).
ایمن از شر امیران و وزیر ** در پناه نام احمد مستجیر
Their offspring also multiplied: the Light of Ahmad aided and befriended them.
نسل ایشان نیز هم بسیار شد ** نور احمد ناصر آمد یار شد
And the other party among the Christians (who) were holding the Name of Ahmad in contempt,
و آن گروه دیگر از نصرانیان ** نام احمد داشتندی مستهان
They became contemptible and despised through dissensions caused by the evil counselling and evil-plotting vizier;735
مستهان و خوار گشتند از فتن ** از وزیر شوم رای شوم فن
Moreover, their religion and their law became corrupted in consequence of the scrolls which set forth all perversely.
هم مخبط دینشان و حکمشان ** از پی طومارهای کژ بیان
The Name of Ahmad gives such help as this, so that (one may judge) how his Light keeps guard (over his followers).
نام احمد این چنین یاری کند ** تا که نورش چون نگهداری کند
Since the Name of Ahmad became (to the Christians) an impregnable fortress, what then must be the Essence of that trusted Spirit?
نام احمد چون حصاری شد حصین ** تا چه باشد ذات آن روح الامین
The story of another Jewish king who endeavored to destroy the religion of Jesus.
حکایت پادشاه جهود دیگر که در هلاک دین عیسی سعی نمود
After this irremediable bloodshed which befell through the affliction (brought upon the Christians) by the vizier,
بعد از این خون ریز درمان ناپذیر ** کاندر افتاد از بلای آن وزیر
Another king, of the progeny of that Jew, addressed himself to the destruction of the people of Jesus.740
یک شه دیگر ز نسل آن جهود ** در هلاک قوم عیسی رو نمود
If you desire information about this second outbreak, read the chapter of the Qur’án (beginning): By Heaven which hath the (zodiacal) signs.
گر خبر خواهی از این دیگر خروج ** سوره بر خوان و السما ذات البروج
This second king set foot in the evil way that was originated by the former king.
سنت بد کز شه اول بزاد ** این شه دیگر قدم بر وی نهاد
Whosoever establishes an evil way (practice), towards him goes malediction every hour.
هر که او بنهاد ناخوش سنتی ** سوی او نفرین رود هر ساعتی
The righteous departed and their ways remained, and from the vile there remained (nothing but) injustice and execrations.
نیکوان رفتند و سنتها بماند ** وز لئیمان ظلم و لعنتها بماند
Until the Resurrection, the face of every congener of those wicked men who comes into existence is turned towards that one (who belongs to his own kind).745
تا قیامت هر که جنس آن بدان ** در وجود آید بود رویش بدان
Vein by vein is this sweet water and bitter water, flowing in (God's) creatures until the blast of the trumpet (at the Resurrection).
رگ رگ است این آب شیرین و آب شور ** در خلایق میرود تا نفخ صور
To the righteous is the inheritance of the sweet water. What is that inheritance? We have caused (those of Our servants whom We have chosen) to inherit the Book.
نیکوان را هست میراث از خوشآب ** آن چه میراث است أورثنا الکتاب