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2031-2055

  • Thinking, “Mayhap this man has come to attack me—he is a murderer; or he has hope (of gain)—he is a beggar and a tout;
  • کاین مگر قصد من آمد خونی است ** یا طمع دارد گدا و تونی است‏

  • Or he has wagered with his friends that he will make me afraid of this companion.”
  • یا گرو بسته ست با یاران بدین ** که بترساند مرا زین هم نشین‏

  • From the wickedness of his heart, not (even) one good surmise came into his thoughts at all.
  • خود نیامد هیچ از خبث سرش ** یک گمان نیک اندر خاطرش‏

  • His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.
  • ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود

  • Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just. 2035
  • عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد

  • How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”
  • گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست‏

  • Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,
  • گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال‏

  • Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).
  • صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم‏

  • Thou hast seen from me hundreds of thousands of miracles, (and all the time) a hundred fancies and doubts and (vain) opinions were growing in thee.
  • صد هزاران معجزه دیدی ز من ** صد خیالت می‏فزود و شک و ظن‏

  • Thou wert sorely pressed by fancy and devilish suggestion, thou wert sneering at my prophethood.
  • از خیال و وسوسه تنگ آمدی ** طعن بر پیغمبری‏ام می‏زدی‏

  • I raised up dust from the sea before your eyes, so that ye might be delivered from the wickedness of the people of Pharaoh. 2040
  • گرد از دریا بر آوردم عیان ** تا رهیدیت از شر فرعونیان‏

  • During forty years the platter and tray (of food) came (to you) from heaven, and at my prayer the river ran from a rock.
  • ز آسمان چل سال کاسه و خوان رسید ** وز دعایم جویی از سنگی دوید

  • These (miracles) and a hundred times as many, and all these diverse (evidences), did not make that vain imagination fade away from thee, O cold (hard-hearted) man!
  • این و صد چندین و چندین گرم و سرد ** از تو ای سرد آن توهم کم نکرد

  • Through sorcery a calf lowed; (then) thou didst fall to worship, saying, ‘Thou art my God.’
  • بانگ زد گوساله‏ای از جادویی ** سجده کردی که خدای من تویی‏

  • (Then) those imaginations were swept away (as) by a flood, and thy silly shrewdness went to sleep.
  • آن توهمهات را سیلاب برد ** زیرکی باردت را خواب برد

  • How wert not thou suspicious in regard to him (Sámirí)? Why didst thou lay thy head (on the ground) like that, O ugly one? 2045
  • چون نبودی بد گمان در حق او ** چون نهادی سر چنان ای زشت رو

  • How did no idea come to thee of his imposition and of the corruptness of his fool catching magic?
  • چون خیالت نامد از تزویر او ** وز فساد سحر احمق‏گیر او

  • Who, indeed, is a Sámirí, O ye curs, that he should hew up a God in the world?
  • سامریی خود که باشد ای سگان ** که خدایی بر تراشد در جهان‏

  • How didst thou become of one mind (with him) as to this imposture of his, and become devoid of all perplexities?
  • چون در این تزویر او یکدل شدی ** وز همه اشکالها عاطل شدی‏

  • Is a cow (calf) worthy to be deified on (the strength of) a vain boast, (while there are) a hundred disputes as to the prophetic mission of one like me?
  • گاو می‏شاید خدایی را به لاف ** در رسولی‏ام تو چون کردی خلاف‏

  • Through asinine dullness thou didst cast thyself down in worship before a cow (calf); thy understanding fell a prey to Sámirí's magic. 2050
  • پیش گاوی سجده کردی از خری ** گشت عقلت صید سحر سامری‏

  • Thou didst steal thine eye away from the Light of the Glorious (God): here is plenteous folly for thee and the essence of perdition!
  • چشم دزدیدی ز نور ذو الجلال ** اینت جهل وافر و عین ضلال‏

  • Fie upon such an understanding and (faculty of) choice as thou hast! ’Twere fitting to kill a mine of folly like thee.
  • شه بر آن عقل و گزینش که تراست ** چون تو کان جهل را کشتن سزاست‏

  • The golden calf uttered a cry; prithee, what did it say, that all this desire (for it) blossomed in the fools?
  • گاو زرین بانگ کرد آخر چه گفت ** کاحمقان را این همه رغبت شگفت‏

  • Ye have seen from me many a thing more wonderful than that, but how should every rascal accept God?”
  • ز آن عجبتر دیده‏اید از من بسی ** لیک حق را کی پذیرد هر خسی‏

  • What carries away (enraptures) worthless folk? Worthlessness. What pleases futile folk? Futility, 2055
  • باطلان را چه رباید باطلی ** عاطلان را چه خوش آید عاطلی‏