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  • The prophets say, “The day for remedy is past; the remedy and the strong implement (for tilling the soil of good works) were there.
  • انبیا گویند روز چاره رفت ** چاره آنجا بود و دست‌افزار زفت

  • Thou art an untimely bird. Begone, O miserable one, take leave of us, do not wade in our blood.”
  • مرغ بی‌هنگامی ای بدبخت رو ** ترک ما گو خون ما اندر مشو

  • (Then) he turns his face to the left hand towards his family and kinsfolk: they say to him, “Be silent!
  • رو بگرداند به سوی دست چپ ** در تبار و خویش گویندش که خپ

  • Hark, answer for thyself to the Creator. Who are we? Sire, keep thy hands off us!” 2170
  • هین جواب خویش گو با کردگار ** ما کییم ای خواجه دست از ما بدار

  • No succour comes either from this side or from that: the soul of this desperate man is (torn into) a hundred pieces.
  • نه ازین سو نه از آن سو چاره شد ** جان آن بیچاره‌دل صد پاره شد

  • The wretched personage loses hope of all; then he lifts up both hands in supplication,
  • از همه نومید شد مسکین کیا ** پس برآرد هر دو دست اندر دعا

  • Crying, “O God, I have lost hope of all: Thou art the First and the Last and the ultimate Bourn.”
  • کز همه نومید گشتم ای خدا ** اول و آخر توی و منتها

  • Behold in the ritual prayer these goodly indications, in order that you may know these will certainly come to pass.
  • در نماز این خوش اشارتها ببین ** تا بدانی کین بخواهد شد یقین

  • From the ritual prayer, which is (as) the egg, hatch the chick; do not peck like a bird without reverence or propriety. 2175
  • بچه بیرون آر از بیضه نماز ** سر مزن چون مرغ بی تعظیم و ساز

  • How during the ritual prayer Daqúqí heard cries of distress from a ship that was about to sink.
  • شنیدن دقوقی در میان نماز افغان آن کشتی کی غرق خواست شدن

  • Daqúqí made ready to act as Imám: he began to perform the ritual prayer on the shore,
  • آن دقوقی در امامت کرد ساز ** اندر آن ساحل در آمد در نماز

  • While that company stood up behind him. Look you, a goodly company, and an elect Imám!
  • و آن جماعت در پی او در قیام ** اینت زیبا قوم و بگزیده امام

  • Of a sudden his eye turned towards the sea, because he heard (cries of) “Help! Help!” (coming) from the direction of the sea.
  • ناگهان چشمش سوی دریا فتاد ** چون شنید از سوی دریا داد داد

  • He saw amidst the waves a ship in (the hour of its) fate, and in tribulation and an evil plight.
  • در میان موج دید او کشتیی ** در قضا و در بلا و زشتیی

  • (There were) both night and clouds and huge waves: these three darknesses, and (also) fear of (being drowned in) the whirlpool. 2180
  • هم شب و هم ابر و هم موج عظیم ** این سه تاریکی و از غرقاب بیم

  • A fierce wind, like ‘Azrá’íl, arose; the waves tossed on left and right.
  • تند بادی همچو عزرائیل خاست ** موجها آشوفت اندر چپ و راست

  • The people in the ship were faint with terror: cries of woe had arisen,
  • اهل کشتی از مهابت کاسته ** نعره وا ویلها برخاسته

  • And in lamentation they were beating their heads with their hands: infidel and deist—they all had become sincere (in devotion to God),
  • دستها در نوحه بر سر می‌زدند ** کافر و ملحد همه مخلص شدند

  • Making heartfelt promises and vows to God with a hundred humble entreaties in that hour.
  • با خدا با صد تضرع آن زمان ** عهدها و نذرها کرده بجان

  • Bare-headed in the prostrate attitude (of Divine worship) were those whose faces, because of (their) perversity, had never seen the qibla at all. 2185
  • سر برهنه در سجود آنها که هیچ ** رویشان قبله ندید از پیچ پیچ

  • They (formerly) said, “This worship of God is useless”; (but) in that hour (of despair) they saw a hundred lives (precious advantages) therein.
  • گفته که بی‌فایده‌ست این بندگی ** آن زمان دیده در آن صد زندگی

  • They had entirely abandoned hope of all—of friends and maternal and paternal uncles and father and mother.
  • از همه اومید ببریده تمام ** دوستان و خال و عم بابا و مام

  • At that moment ascetic and reprobate (alike) had become God-fearing as a wicked man at the time of the death-agony.
  • زاهد و فاسق شد آن دم متقی ** همچو در هنگام جان کندن شقی

  • Neither on the left nor on the right was there any help for them: when (all) expedients are dead, (then) is the time to invoke God.
  • نه ز چپشان چاره بود و نه ز راست ** حیله‌ها چون مرد هنگام دعاست

  • They were (engaged) in invocation and lament and moaning: a black smoke went up from them to heaven. 2190
  • در دعا ایشان و در زاری و آه ** بر فلک زیشان شده دود سیاه

  • Then the Devil cried in enmity, “Avaunt! Avaunt! O dog-worshippers, (ye shall be afflicted with) two maladies.
  • دیو آن دم از عداوت بین بین ** بانگ زد کای سگ‌پرستان علتین