- So that (by sparing us) Thou wilt have concealed other disgraces, O Bounteous One whose help we implore!
- تا فضیحتهای دیگر را نهان ** کرده باشی ای کریم مستعان
- Thou art infinite in beauty and perfection; we are infinite in wrongness and error. 2500
- بیحدی تو در جمال و در کمال ** در کژی ما بیحدیم و در ضلال
- Direct Thy infinity, O Bounteous One, upon the infinite wrongness of a handful of vile wretches (such as we are).
- بیحدی خویش بگمار ای کریم ** بر کژی بیحد مشتی لئیم
- Oh, come, for of our cloth-piece (only) a single thread remains we were a city, and (only) a single wall remains.
- هین که از تقطیع ما یک تار ماند ** مصر بودیم و یکی دیوار ماند
- (Save) the remnant, (save) the remnant, O Sovereign, that the soul of the Devil may not rejoice entirely––
- البقیه البقیه ای خدیو ** تا نگردد شاد کلی جان دیو
- Not for our sakes, (but) for the sake of the primal grace through which Thou didst seek out them that had lost the way.
- بهر ما نه بهر آن لطف نخست ** که تو کردی گمرهان را باز جست
- As Thou hast shown Thy power, (so now) show Thy mercy, O Thou who hast implanted feelings of mercy in flesh and fat. 2505
- چون نمودی قدرتت بنمای رحم ** ای نهاده رحمها در لحم و شحم
- If this prayer increase Thy wrath, do Thou teach (us) to pray, O Lord,
- این دعا گر خشم افزاید ترا ** تو دعا تعلیم فرما مهترا
- Even as, (when) Adam fell from Paradise, Thou gavest him (leave) to turn (in penitence) toward Thee, so that he escaped from the ugly Devil.”
- آن چنان کادم بیفتاد از بهشت ** رجعتش دادی که رست از دیو زشت
- Who is the Devil that he should surpass Adam and win the game from him on such a board?
- دیو که بود کاو ز آدم بگذرد ** بر چنین نطعی از او بازی برد
- In truth, it all turned out to Adam’s advantage: that guile became a curse to the envious one.
- در حقیقت نفع آدم شد همه ** لعنت حاسد شده آن دمدمه
- He (the Devil) saw one game, (but) he did not see two hundred games (which he should lose): therefore he cut down the supports of his own house. 2510
- بازیی دید و دو صد بازی ندید ** پس ستون خانهی خود را برید
- He set fire by night to the cornfield of others; (meanwhile) O wind, drive the fire into his field!
- آتشی زد شب به کشت دیگران ** باد آتش را به کشت او بران
- The (Divine) curse was a blind to the Devil, so that he regarded that trickery (of his) as harm to (his) enemy.
- چشم بندی بود لعنت دیو را ** تا زیان خصم دید آن ریو را
- The (Divine) curse is that which makes him (any one) see falsely, and makes him envious, self-conceited, and malicious,
- لعنت این باشد که کژبینش کند ** حاسد و خود بین و پر کینش کند
- To the end that he may not know that whoever does evil, it (that evil) will at last come back and smite him.
- تا نداند که هر آن که کرد بد ** عاقبت باز آید و بر وی زند
- He sees all the master-moves invertedly: (hence) they result in check-mate to him and (in) failure and defeat. 2515
- جمله فرزین بندها بیند بعکس ** مات بر وی گردد و نقصان و وکس
- (The curse blinds him), because, if he regard himself as naught, (if) he regard the wound (his moral and spiritual blindness) as deadly and festering,
- ز انکه گر او هیچ بیند خویش را ** مهلک و ناسور بیند ریش را
- Pain will arise from such looking within, and the pain will bring him out from the veil (of self-conceit).
- درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون ** درد او را از حجاب آرد برون
- Until mothers are overtaken by the pains of childbirth, the child finds no way to be born.
- تا نگیرد مادران را درد زه ** طفل در زادن نیابد هیچ ره
- This (God-given) trust is in the heart, and the heart is pregnant (with it): these counsels (of the prophets and saints) are like the midwife.
- این امانت در دل و دل حامله ست ** این نصیحتها مثال قابله ست
- The midwife may say that the woman has no pain; (but) pain is necessary, pain is (makes) a way for the child (to be born). 2520
- قابله گوید که زن را درد نیست ** درد باید درد کودک را رهی است
- He that is without pain is a brigand, because to be without pain is to say “I am God.”
- آن که او بیدرد باشد ره زن است ** ز انکه بیدردی انا الحق گفتن است
- To say that “I” out of the (proper) time is a curse (to the speaker); to say that “I” at the (proper) time is a mercy (from God).
- آن انا بیوقت گفتن لعنت است ** آن انا در وقت گفتن رحمت است
- The “I” of Mansúr (Halláj) certainly became a mercy; the “I” of Pharaoh became a curse. Mark (this)!
- آن انا منصور رحمت شد یقین ** آن انا فرعون لعنت شد ببین