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5
188-212

  • I have a jewel, namely, abstinence or generosity”: this alms-giving and fasting are witnesses in regard to both (these qualities).
  • گوهری دارم ز تقوی یا سخا  ** این زکات و روزه در هر دو گوا 

  • Fasting says (implicitly), “He has abstained from what is lawful: know (therefore) that he has no connexion with what is unlawful”;
  • روزه گوید کرد تقوی از حلال  ** در حرامش دان که نبود اتصال 

  • And his alms-giving said (implicitly), “He gives of his own property: how, then, should he steal from the religious?” 190
  • وان زکاتش گفت کو از مال خویش  ** می‌دهد پس چون بدزدد ز اهل کیش 

  • If he act as a cutpurse (from self-interest), then the two witnesses are invalidated in the court of Divine justice.
  • گر بطراری کند پس دو گواه  ** جرح شد در محکمه‌ی عدل اله 

  • He is a fowler if he scatter grain not from mercy and munificence but in order to catch (the birds).
  • هست صیاد ار کند دانه نثار  ** نه ز رحم و جود بل بهر شکار 

  • He is a cat keeping the fast and feigning to be asleep at fast-time for the purpose of (seizing) his ignorant prey.
  • هست گربه‌ی روزه‌دار اندر صیام  ** خفته کرده خویش بهر صید خام 

  • By this unrighteousness he makes a hundred parties (of people) suspicious, he causes the generous and abstinent to be in ill repute.
  • کرده بدظن زین کژی صد قوم را  ** کرده بدنام اهل جود و صوم را 

  • (But) notwithstanding that he weaves crookedly, in the end the grace of God will purge him of all this (hypocrisy). 195
  • فضل حق با این که او کژ می‌تند  ** عاقبت زین جمله پاکش می‌کند 

  • His (God's) mercy takes precedence (over His wrath) and bestows on that treachery (hypocrisy) a light that the full-moon does not possess.
  • سبق برده رحمتش وان غدر را  ** داده نوری که نباشد بدر را 

  • God cleanses his effort of this contamination: the (Divine) Mercy washes him clean of this folly.
  • کوششش را شسته حق زین اختلاط  ** غسل داده رحمت او را زین خباط 

  • In order that His great forgivingness may be made manifest, a helmet (of forgiveness) will cover his (the hypocrite's) baldness.
  • تا که غفاری او ظاهر شود  ** مغفری کلیش را غافر شود 

  • The water rained from heaven, that it might cleanse the impure of their defilement.
  • آب بهر این ببارید از سماک  ** تا پلیدان را کند از خبث پاک 

  • How the water cleanses all impurities and then is cleansed of impurity by God most High. Verily, God most High is exceeding holy.
  • پاک کردن آب همه پلیدیها را و باز پاک کردن خدای تعالی آب را از پلیدی لاجرم قدوس آمد حق تعالی 

  • When the water had done battle (in its task of ablution) and had been made dirty and had become such that the senses rejected it, 200
  • آب چون پیگار کرد و شد نجس  ** تا چنان شد که آب را رد کرد حس 

  • God brought it back into the sea of Goodness, that the Origin of the water might generously wash it (clean).
  • حق ببردش باز در بحر صواب  ** تا به شستش از کرم آن آب آب 

  • Next year it came sweeping proudly along. “Hey, where hast thou been?” “In the sea of the pure.
  • سال دیگر آمد او دامن‌کشان  ** هی کجا بودی به دریای خوشان 

  • I went from here dirty; I have come (back) clean. I have received a robe of honour, I have come to the earth (again).
  • من نجس زینجا شدم پاک آمدم  ** بستدم خلعت سوی خاک آمدم 

  • Hark, come unto me, O ye polluted ones, for my nature hath partaken of the nature of God.
  • هین بیایید ای پلیدان سوی من  ** که گرفت از خوی یزدان خوی من 

  • I will accept all thy foulness: I will bestow on the demon purity like (that of) the angel. 205
  • در پذیرم جمله‌ی زشتیت را  ** چون ملک پاکی دهم عفریت را 

  • When I become defiled, I will return thither: I will go to the Source of the source of purities.
  • چون شوم آلوده باز آنجا روم  ** سوی اصل اصل پاکیها رو 

  • There I will pull the filthy cloak off my head: He will give me a clean robe once more.
  • دلق چرکین بر کنم آنجا ز سر  ** خلعت پاکم دهد بار دگر 

  • Such is His work, and my work is the same: the Lord of all created beings is the beautifier of the world.”
  • کار او اینست و کار من همین  ** عالم‌آرایست رب العالمین 

  • Were it not for these impurities of ours, how would the water have this glory?
  • گر نبودی این پلیدیهای ما  ** کی بدی این بارنامه آب را 

  • It stole purses of gold from a certain One: (then) it runs in every direction, crying, “Where is an insolvent?” 210
  • کیسه‌های زر بدزدید از کسی  ** می‌رود هر سو که هین کو مفلسی 

  • Either it sheds (the treasure) on a blade of grass that has grown, or it washes the face of one whose face is unwashed,
  • یا بریزد بر گیاه رسته‌ای  ** یا بشوید روی رو ناشسته‌ای 

  • Or, porter-like, it takes on its head (surface) the ship that is without hand or foot (helplessly tossing) in the seas.
  • یا بگیرد بر سر او حمال‌وار  ** کشتی بی‌دست و پا را در بحار