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2863-2887

  • The God-proclaiming man who engaged in controversy was saved, while that bastard (impostor) was burnt in the fire.
  • از خدا گوینده مرد مدعی ** رست و سوزید اندر آتش آن دعی

  • Hear from the muezzin this announcement, to the confusion of the foolish transgressors,
  • از مذن بشنو این اعلام را ** کوری افزون‌روان خام را

  • That this name (Mohammed) has not been burnt (destroyed) by Death, since its bearer was a prince and most noble. 2865
  • که نسوزیدست این نام از اجل ** کش مسمی صدر بودست و اجل

  • In the course of time hundreds of thousands of the veils of the unbelievers have been rent by this laying down of stakes.
  • صد هزاران زین رهان اندر قران ** بر دریده پرده‌های منکران

  • When they (the devout men and the philosopher) made the wager, the truth prevailed as regards immortality and evidentiary miracles and the answer (given to unbelievers).
  • چون گرو بستند غالب شد صواب ** در دوام و معجزات و در جواب

  • I perceived that he who spoke (in support) of the priority (of non-existence) and of the temporal origin of the celestial sphere was victorious and in the right.”
  • فهم کردم کانک دم زد از سبق ** وز حدوث چرخ پیروزست و حق

  • The unbeliever's argument is always shamefaced: where is a single sign that indicates the truth of that unbelief?
  • حجت منکر هماره زردرو ** یک نشان بر صدق آن انکار کو

  • Where in this world is (to be found) a single minaret in praise (honour) of the unbelievers, so that it should be a sign (of their veracity)? 2870
  • یک مناره در ثنای منکران ** کو درین عالم که تا باشد نشان

  • Where is (to be found) a single pulpit where a preacher commemorates the life of an unbeliever?
  • منبری کو که بر آنجا مخبری ** یاد آرد روزگار منکری

  • The face of gold and silver coins, from (bearing) their (the prophets') names, is giving a token of this truth till the Resurrection.
  • روی دینار و درم از نامشان ** تا قیامت می‌دهد زین حق نشان

  • The dies of the kings are ever being changed: behold the die of Ahmad (Mohammed) till the end of the world.
  • سکه‌ی شاهان همی گردد دگر ** سکه‌ی احمد ببین تا مستقر

  • Show (me) the name of a single unbeliever on the design (stamped) on the face of any piece of silver or gold!
  • بر رخ نقره و یا روی زری ** وا نما بر سکه نام منکری

  • Even (supposing that you) do not admit (arguments), behold this Miracle, (manifest) like the sun, hundred-tongued, whereof the name is Ummu ’l-Kitáb. 2875
  • خود مگیر این معجز چون آفتاب ** صد زبان بین نام او ام‌الکتاب

  • None dares either steal (take away) a single letter thereof or add to the plain Word.
  • زهره نی کس را که یک حرفی از آن ** یا بدزدد یا فزاید در بیان

  • Become a friend to the conqueror, that thou mayst conquer: beware, do not become a friend to the vanquished, O misguided man!
  • یار غالب شو که تا غالب شوی ** یار مغلوبان مشو هین ای غوی

  • The unbeliever's argument is just this, that he says, “I see no place of abode except this external (world).”
  • حجت منکر همین آمد که من ** غیر این ظاهر نمی‌بینم وطن

  • He never reflects that, wherever there is anything external, that (object) gives information of hidden wise purposes.
  • هیچ نندیشد که هر جا ظاهریست ** آن ز حکمتهای پنهان مخبریست

  • The usefulness of every external object is, indeed, internal: it is latent, like the beneficial quality in medicines. 2880
  • فایده‌ی هر ظاهری خود باطنیست ** هم‌چو نفع اندر دواها کامنست

  • Commentary on the Verse, "And We did not create the heavens and the earth and what is between them save with real ground": (i.e.) "I did not create them for the sake of just this which ye see; nay, but for the sake of the essential meaning and everlasting providence which ye see not."
  • تفسیر این آیت کی و ما خلقنا السموات والارض و ما بینهما الا بالحق نیافریدمشان بهر همین کی شما می‌بینید بلک بهر معنی و حکمت باقیه کی شما نمی‌بینید آن را

  • Does any painter paint a beautiful picture for the sake of the picture itself, without hope of conferring benefit?
  • هیچ نقاشی نگارد زین نقش ** بی امید نفع بهر عین نقش

  • Nay, (he paints it) for the sake of guests and young people who by diverting themselves (with it) may be relieved from cares.
  • بلک بهر میهمانان و کهان ** که به فرجه وارهند از اندهان

  • From his picture (arises) the joy of children and the remembering of departed friend's by their friends.
  • شادی بچگان و یاد دوستان ** دوستان رفته را از نقش آن

  • Does any potter make a pot in haste for the sake of the pot itself and not in hope of the water?
  • هیچ کوزه‌گر کند کوزه شتاب ** بهر عین کوزه نه بر بوی آب

  • Does any bowl-maker make a finished bowl for the sake of the bowl itself and not for the sake of the food? 2885
  • هیچ کاسه گر کند کاسه تمام ** بهر عین کاسه نه بهر طعام

  • Does any calligrapher write artistically for the sake of the writing itself and not for the sake of the reading?
  • هیچ خطاطی نویسد خط به فن ** بهر عین خط نه بهر خواندن

  • The external form is for the sake of the unseen form; and that took shape for the sake of another unseen (form).
  • نقش ظاهر بهر نقش غایبست ** وان برای غایب دیگر ببست