Does the semen at all resemble that child? Does the sugar-cane at all resemble the candy?
هیچ ماند آب آن فرزند را ** هیچ ماند نیشکر مر قند را
When a man has sown a prostration (in prayer) or a genuflexion, in yonder world his prostration becomes Paradise.
چون سجودی یا رکوعی مرد کشت ** شد در آن عالم سجود او بهشت
When praise of God has flown from his mouth, the Lord of the daybreak fashions it into a bird of Paradise.
چونک پرید از دهانش حمد حق ** مرغ جنت ساختش رب الفلق
Your praise and glorification does not resemble the bird, though the bird's semen is (naught but) wind and air.
حمد و تسبیحت نماند مرغ را ** گرچه نطفه‌ی مرغ بادست و هوا
When altruism and almsgiving have grown up (proceeded) from your hand, (the act of) this (generous) hand becomes on yonder side (in the world hereafter) date-palms and (fresh) herbage.3460
چون ز دستت رست ایثار و زکات ** گشت این دست آن طرف نخل و نبات
The water (semen), (namely) your renunciation, became a river of water in Paradise; your love and affection (for God) is a river of milk in Paradise.
آب صبرت جوی آب خلد شد ** جوی شیر خلد مهر تست و ود
Delight in devotion became a river of honey; behold your (spiritual) intoxication and longing as a river of wine.
ذوق طاعت گشت جوی انگبین ** مستی و شوق تو جوی خمر بین
These causes did not resemble those effects: none knows how He (God) installed it (the effect) in the place of that (cause).
این سببها آن اثرها را نماند ** کس نداند چونش جای آن نشاند
Since these causes were (obedient) to your command, the four rivers (of Paradise) likewise showed obedience to you.
این سببها چون به فرمان تو بود ** چار جو هم مر ترا فرمان نمود
You make them flow in whatever direction you wish: (even) as that quality (of disposition) was (in this world), such do you make it (the effect) to be (in the next world),3465
هر طرف خواهی روانش می‌کنی ** آن صفت چون بد چنانش می‌کنی
As (for example) your semen, which is at your command— the progeny thereof are ready to (obey) your command.
چون منی تو که در فرمان تست ** نسل آن در امر تو آیند چست
Your young son runs (obediently) at your command, saying, “I am the part of thee which thou didst deposit (in my mother's womb).”
می‌دود بر امر تو فرزند نو ** که منم جزوت که کردی‌اش گرو
That (praiseworthy) quality was (obedient) to your command in this world: likewise (in the next world) those rivers flow at your command.
آن صفت در امر تو بود این جهان ** هم در امر تست آن جوها روان
Those trees (of Paradise) are obedient to you, because those trees are (made) fruitful by your (good) qualities.
آن درختان مر ترا فرمان‌برند ** کان درختان از صفاتت با برند
Since these qualities are (obedient) to your command here, so your recompense is at your command there.3470
چون به امر تست اینجا این صفات ** پس در امر تست آنجا آن جزات
When blows proceeded from your hand against the victim of injustice, they became a tree (in Hell): the Zaqqúm grew from them.
چون ز دستت زخم بر مظلوم رست ** آن درختی گشت ازو زقوم رست
When in anger you threw fire into (people's) hearts, you became the source of Hell-fire.
چون ز خشم آتش تو در دلها زدی ** مایه‌ی نار جهنم آمدی
Since here (in this world) your fire was burning mankind, that which was born of it was kindling men (in Hell).
آتشت اینجا چو آدم سوز بود ** آنچ از وی زاد مرد افروز بود
Your fire (of anger) makes an attack on the people (here): the fire that sprang from it rushes against the people (there).
آتش تو قصد مردم می‌کند ** نار کز وی زاد بر مردم زند
Your words resembling snakes and scorpions have become snakes and scorpions and are seizing your tail (assailing you from behind).3475
آن سخنهای چو مار و کزدمت ** مار و کزدم گشت و می‌گیرد دمت
You kept the friends (of God) waiting: (hence) you will be kept waiting at the Resurrection.
اولیا را داشتی در انتظار ** انتظار رستخیزت گشت یار
Your promise, “To-morrow” and “the day after to-morrow,” has become your waiting on the Day of Congregation: alas for you!
وعده‌ی فردا و پس‌فردای تو ** انتظار حشرت آمد وای تو
You will remain waiting on that long Day, (engaged) in rendering an account (of your actions) and (standing) in the soul-consuming sun,
منتظر مانی در آن روز دراز ** در حساب و آفتاب جان‌گداز
Because you were wont to keep Heaven waiting and sow the seed of “I will go on the Way to-morrow.”
کسمان را منتظر می‌داشتی ** تخم فردا ره روم می‌کاشتی
Your anger is the seed of Hell-fire: take heed, extinguish this Hell of yours, for this is a trap.3480
خشم تو تخم سعیر دوزخست ** هین بکش این دوزخت را کین فخست