- If you know that God is the Judge, how is it right for you (to indulge in) this doting talk and familiarity?
- گر همیدانی که یزدان داور است ** ژاژ و گستاخی ترا چون باور است
- Truly, the friendship of a witless man is enmity: the high God is not in want of suchlike service.
- دوستی بیخرد خود دشمنی است ** حق تعالی زین چنین خدمت غنی است
- To whom are you saying this? To your paternal and maternal uncles? Are the body and (its) needs among the attributes of the Lord of glory? 1735
- با که میگویی تو این با عم و خال ** جسم و حاجت در صفات ذو الجلال
- (Only) he that is waxing and growing drinks milk: (only) he that has need of feet puts on shoes.
- شیر او نوشد که در نشو و نماست ** چارق او پوشد که او محتاج پاست
- And if these words of yours are (meant) for His servant, of whom God said, ‘He is I and I myself am he’;
- ور برای بندهش است این گفتوگو ** آن که حق گفت او من است و من خود او
- (For him) of whom He (God) said, ‘Verily, I was sick and thou didst not visit Me,’ (that is), ‘I became ill, not he (the sick man) alone’;
- آن که گفت انی مرضت لم تعد ** من شدم رنجور او تنها نشد
- (For him) who has become seeing by Me and hearing by Me— this (talk of yours) is foolish nonsense even in regard to that servant.
- آن که بییسمع و بییبصر شده ست ** در حق آن بنده این هم بیهده ست
- To speak irreverently to one chosen of God causes the heart (spirit) to perish and keeps the page (record) black. 1740
- بیادب گفتن سخن با خاص حق ** دل بمیراند سیه دارد ورق
- If you should call a man ‘Fátima’—though men and women are all of one kind—
- گر تو مردی را بخوانی فاطمه ** گر چه یک جنسند مرد و زن همه
- He will seek to murder you, so far as it is possible (for him), albeit he is good-natured and forbearing and quiet.
- قصد خون تو کند تا ممکن است ** گر چه خوش خو و حلیم و ساکن است
- (The name) Fátima is (a term of) praise in regard to women, (but) if you address it to a man, ’tis (like) the blow of a spearhead.
- فاطمه مدح است در حق زنان ** مرد را گویی بود زخم سنان
- Hand and foot are (terms of) praise in relation to us; in relation to the holiness of God they are pollution.
- دست و پا در حق ما استایش است ** در حق پاکی حق آلایش است
- (The words) He begat not, He was not begotten are appropriate to Him: He is the Creator of begetter and begotten. 1745
- لم یلد لم یولد او را لایق است ** والد و مولود را او خالق است
- Birth is the attribute of everything that is (a) body: whatever is born is on this side of the river,
- هر چه جسم آمد ولادت وصف اوست ** هر چه مولود است او زین سوی جوست
- Because it is of (the world of) becoming and decay and (is) contemptible: it is originated and certainly requires an Originator.”
- ز انکه از کون و فساد است و مهین ** حادث است و محدثی خواهد یقین
- He (the shepherd) said, “O Moses, thou hast closed my mouth and thou hast burned my soul with repentance.”
- گفت ای موسی دهانم دوختی ** و ز پشیمانی تو جانم سوختی
- He rent his garment and heaved a sigh, and hastily turned his head towards a desert and went (his way).
- جامه را بدرید و آهی کرد تفت ** سر نهاد اندر بیابانی و رفت
- How the high God rebuked Moses, on whom be peace, on account of the shepherd.
- عتاب کردن حق تعالی با موسی علیه السلام از بهر آن شبان
- A revelation came to Moses from God—“Thou hast parted My servant from Me. 1750
- وحی آمد سوی موسی از خدا ** بندهی ما را ز ما کردی جدا
- Didst thou come (as a prophet) to unite, or didst thou come to sever?
- تو برای وصل کردن آمدی ** نی برای فصل کردن آمدی
- So far as thou canst, do not set foot in separation: of (all) things the most hateful to Me is divorce.
- تا توانی پا منه اندر فراق ** أبغض الأشیاء عندی الطلاق
- I have bestowed on every one a (special) way of acting: I have given to every one a (peculiar) form of expression.
- هر کسی را سیرتی بنهادهام ** هر کسی را اصطلاحی دادهام
- In regard to him it is (worthy of) praise, and in regard to thee it is (worthy of) blame: in regard to him honey, and in regard to thee poison.
- در حق او مدح و در حق تو ذم ** در حق او شهد و در حق تو سم
- I am independent of all purity and impurity, of all slothfulness and alacrity (in worshipping Me). 1755
- ما بری از پاک و ناپاکی همه ** از گران جانی و چالاکی همه
- I did not ordain (Divine worship) that I might make any profit; nay, but that I might do a kindness to (My) servants.
- من نکردم امر تا سودی کنم ** بلکه تا بر بندگان جودی کنم
- In the Hindoos the idiom of Hind (India) is praiseworthy; in the Sindians the idiom of Sind is praiseworthy.
- هندوان را اصطلاح هند مدح ** سندیان را اصطلاح سند مدح