- (But) if you have no seed, on account of that prayer God will bestow on you a palm-tree, saying, ‘How well did he labour!’
- گر نداری دانه ایزد زان دعا ** بخشدت نخلی که نعم ما سعی
- Like Mary: she had (heartfelt) pain, but no seed: an artful One made green that (withered) palm-tree (for her sake). 1190
- هم‌چو مریم درد بودش دانه نی ** سبز کرد آن نخل را صاحب‌فنی
- Because that noble Lady was loyal (to God), God gave unto her a hundred desires without desire on her part.
- زانک وافی بود آن خاتون راد ** بی‌مرادش داد یزدان صد مراد
- The company who have been loyal are given superiority over all (other) sorts (of men).
- آن جماعت را که وافی بوده‌اند ** بر همه اصنافشان افزوده‌اند
- Seas and mountains are made subject to them; the four elements also are the slaves of that class.
- گشت دریاها مسخرشان و کوه ** چار عنصر نیز بنده‌ی آن گروه
- This (miraculous power) is only a favour (conferred on them) for a sign, to the end that the disbelievers may see it plainly.
- این خود اکرامیست از بهر نشان ** تا ببینند اهل انکار آن عیان
- Those hidden graces of theirs, which come not into (the perception of) the senses or into description— 1195
- آن کرامتهای پنهانشان که آن ** در نیاید در حواس و در بیان
- Those are the (real) matter: those are enduring for ever, they are neither cut off nor reclaimed.
- کار آن دارد خود آن باشد ابد ** دایما نه منقطع نه مسترد
- O Giver of (spiritual) nutriment and steadfastness and stability, give Thy creatures deliverance from this instability.
- ای دهنده‌ی قوت و تمکین و ثبات ** خلق را زین بی‌ثباتی ده نجات
- Grant unto the soul—for it is bent (crooked)—to stand upright (to persevere with rectitude) in the work wherein it ought to be stable.
- اندر آن کاری که ثابت بودنیست ** قایمی ده نفس را که منثنیست
- Bestow patience upon them and heavy balance-scales: deliver them from the guile of impostors;
- صبرشان بخش و کفه‌ی میزان گران ** وا رهانشان از فن صورتگران
- And redeem them from envy, O Gracious One, lest from envy they be devils accursed. 1200
- وز حسودی بازشان خر ای کریم ** تا نباشند از حسد دیو رجیم
- How do the vulgar burn with envy for the fleeting happiness of riches and (pleasures of) the body!
- در نعیم فانی مال و جسد ** چون همی‌سوزند عامه از حسد
- Behold the kings, how they lead armies (to battle) and slay their own kinsmen because of envy.
- پادشاهان بین که لشکر می‌کشند ** از حسد خویشان خود را می‌کشند
- The lovers of filthy dolls (darlings) have sought each other's blood and life.
- عاشقان لعبتان پر قذر ** کرده قصد خون و جان همدگر
- Read Wís and Rámín and Khusraw and Shírín: (you will see) what those fools did because of envy.
- ویس و رامین خسرو و شیرین بخوان ** که چه کردند از حسد آن ابلهان
- (You will see) that the lover perished and the beloved too: they are naught and their passion also is naught. 1205
- که فنا شد عاشق و معشوق نیز ** هم نه چیزند و هواشان هم نه چیز
- Holy is the God who brings non-existence into collision with itself and makes non-existence to be in love with non-existence.
- پاک الهی که عدم بر هم زند ** مر عدم را بر عدم عاشق کند
- Envies arise in the heart that is no (real) heart: thus doth Being subject not being to compulsion.
- در دل نه‌دل حسدها سر کند ** نیست را هست این چنین مضطر کند
- These women, who are kinder than all (other creatures)—(even amongst them) two fellow-wives devour each other from envy,
- این زنانی کز همه مشفق‌تراند ** از حسد دو ضره خود را می‌خورند
- So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.
- تا که مردانی که خود سنگین‌دلند ** از حسد تا در کدامین منزلند
- If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces. 1210
- گر نکردی شرع افسونی لطیف ** بر دریدی هر کسی جسم حریف
- The Law makes a plan for repelling evil: it puts the demon into the bottle of (legal) proof—
- شرع بهر دفع شر رایی زند ** دیو را در شیشه‌ی حجت کند
- Witness and oath and shrinking (from the oath)—till (at last) the insolent demon goes into the bottle (prison).
- از گواه و از یمین و از نکول ** تا به شیشه در رود دیو فضول
- (The Law is) like the balance whereby the two adversaries are surely united in contentment, (whether) in jest or earnest.
- مثل میزانی که خشنودی دو ضد ** جمع می‌آید یقین در هزل و جد