The gall-bladders even of courageous men would burst: he (such a one) would neither go his way nor care for any work.
زهرههای پر دلان هم بر درد ** نه رود ره نه غم کاری خورد
Neither would there remain to his heart endurance in supplication, nor to his body strength for fasting and (ritual) prayer.
نه دلش را تاب ماند در نیاز ** نه تنش را قوت روزه و نماز
He would become (good for) nothing as a mouse before a cat; he would be distraught as a lamb before a wolf.
همچو موشی پیش گربه لا شود ** همچو بره پیش گرگ از جا رود
No power to plan or move would remain in him: therefore I tend you without speaking.1915
اندر او نه حیله ماند نه روش ** پس کنم ناگفته تان من پرورش
I am mute, like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí; I handle the iron, like David,
همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زنم ** دست چون داود در آهن زنم
So that by my hand the (seemingly) impossible is brought to pass, and wings are restored to the bird whose plumes were torn away.
تا محال از دست من حالی شود ** مرغ پر برکنده را بالی شود
Since there is (the text) the hand of God is above their hands, the One (God) has declared our hand to be His hand.
چون ید الله فوق أیدیهم بود ** دست ما را دست خود فرمود احد
Therefore mine is surely a long hand that has passed beyond the Seventh Heaven.
پس مرا دست دراز آمد یقین ** بر گذشته ز آسمان هفتمین
My hand showed (its) cunning upon the sky: O teacher of the Qur’án, recite the moon hath been cleft asunder.’1920
دست من بنمود بر گردون هنر ** مقریا بر خوان که انشق القمر
This characteristic, moreover, is on account of the weakness of (men's) understandings: how is it possible to explain the (Divine) omnipotence to the weak?
این صفت هم بهر ضعف عقلهاست ** با ضعیفان شرح قدرت کی رواست
You will surely know when you lift your head from (this sensuous) sleep. ’Tis the end (of my discourse), and God knows best what is right.
خود بدانی چون بر آری سر ز خواب ** ختم شد و الله أعلم بالصواب
“(If I had told you about the snake), you would not have been able to eat, nor would you have been capable of vomiting or cared (to do so).
مر ترا نه قوت خوردن بدی ** نه ره و پروای قی کردن بدی
I heard (your) abuse and went on with my work; I kept repeating under my lip (breath), ‘O Lord, make (it) easy!’
میشنیدم فحش و خر میراندم ** رب یسر زیر لب میخواندم
I had not permission to speak of the cause, and I had not power to abandon you.1925
از سبب گفتن مرا دستور نه ** ترک تو گفتن مرا مقدور نه
From the grief in my heart I was saying continually, ‘Guide my people; verily, they know not’.”
هر زمان میگفتم از درد درون ** اهد قومی إنهم لا یعلمون
The man that had been delivered from woe was falling on his knees and saying, “O (thou who art) my bliss, O my fortune and treasure,
سجدهها میکرد آن رسته ز رنج ** کای سعادت ای مرا اقبال و گنج
Thou wilt get rewards from God, O noble one; this weakling has not the power to thank thee.
از خدا یابی جزاها ای شریف ** قوت شکرت ندارد این ضعیف
God will say thanks to thee, O leader; I have not the lips and the chin and the voice for that.”
شکر حق گوید ترا ای پیشوا ** آن لب و چانه ندارم و آن نوا
Of this fashion is the enmity of the wise: their poison is gladness to the soul.1930
دشمنی عاقلان زینسان بود ** زهر ایشان ابتهاج جان بود
The friendship of the fool is woe and perdition: hear this tale as a parable.
دوستی ابله بود رنج و ضلال ** این حکایت بشنو از بهر مثال
On putting trust in the fawningness and good faith of the bear.
اعتماد کردن بر تملق و وفای خرس
A dragon was pulling a bear (into its jaws); a valiant man went and succoured it.
اژدهایی خرس را در میکشید ** شیر مردی رفت و فریادش رسید
The valiant (holy) men are a help in the world when the wail of the oppressed reaches (them).
شیر مردانند در عالم مدد ** آن زمان کافغان مظلومان رسد
From every quarter they hear the cry of the oppressed and run in that direction, like the mercy of God.
بانگ مظلومان ز هر جا بشنوند ** آن طرف چون رحمت حق میدوند
Those buttresses for the breaches of the world, those physicians for hidden maladies,1935
آن ستونهای خللهای جهان ** آن طبیبان مرضهای نهان
Are pure love and justice and mercy; even as God, they are flawless (incorruptible) and unbribed.
محض مهر و داوری و رحمتند ** همچو حق بیعلت و بیرشوتند