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  • Men hazard their lives in the line of battle and in fighting for the Creator's sake. 875
  • خلق در صف قتال و کارزار  ** جان همی‌بازند بهر کردگار 

  • One is like Job in tribulation; another like Jacob in patience.
  • آن یکی اندر بلا ایوب‌وار  ** وان دگر در صابری یعقوب‌وار 

  • Hundreds of thousands of people, thirsty and sorrowful, are doing some sore toil for God's sake in desire (of pleasing Him).
  • صد هزاران خلق تشنه و مستمند  ** بهر حق از طمع جهدی می‌کنند 

  • I too, for the merciful Lord's sake and in hope of Him, am drumming the sahúr-call at the gate.”
  • من هم از بهر خداوند غفور  ** می‌زنم بر در به اومیدش سحور 

  • (If) you want a customer from whom you will get gold, how should there be a better customer than God, O (my) heart?
  • مشتری خواهی که از وی زر بری  ** به ز حق کی باشد ای دل مشتری 

  • He buys a dirty bag from your (stock of) goods, and gives (you in return) an inner light that borrows (its splendour from Himself). 880
  • می‌خرد از مالت انبانی نجس  ** می‌دهد نور ضمیری مقتبس 

  • He receives the (dissolving) ice of this mortal body, and gives a kingdom beyond our imagination.
  • می‌ستاند این یخ جسم فنا  ** می‌دهد ملکی برون از وهم ما 

  • He receives a few tear-drops, and gives a Kawthar (so delicious) that sugar shows jealousy (of its sweetness).
  • می‌ستاند قطره‌ی چندی ز اشک  ** می‌دهد کوثر که آرد قند رشک 

  • He receives sighs full of melancholy and vaporous gloom, and gives for every sigh a hundred gainful dignities.
  • می‌ستاند آه پر سودا و دود  ** می‌دهد هر آه را صد جاه سود 

  • Because of the wind of sighs that drove onward the tearful cloud, He hath called a Khalíl (Abraham) awwáh (sighful).
  • باد آهی که ابر اشک چشم راند  ** مر خلیلی را بدان اواه خواند 

  • Hark, sell your old rags in this brisk incomparable market, and receive the sterling (real and genuine) kingdom (in exchange). 885
  • هین درین بازار گرم بی‌نظیر  ** کهنه‌ها بفروش و ملک نقد گیر 

  • And if any doubt and suspicion waylay (assail) you, rely upon the (spiritual) traders, (namely), the prophets.
  • ور ترا شکی و ریبی ره زند  ** تاجران انبیا را کن سند 

  • Inasmuch as the (Divine) Emperor increased their fortune exceedingly, no mountain can carry their merchandise.
  • بس که افزود آن شهنشه بختشان  ** می‌نتاند که کشیدن رختشان 

  • The Story of Bilál's crying “One! One!” in the heat of the Hijáz, from his love for Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, in the forenoons when his master, (impelled) by Jewish fanaticism, used to flog him with a thorny branch under the (blazing) sun of the Hijáz; and how at (each) blow the blood spurted from Bilál's body, and (the words) “One! One!” escaped (from his lips) involuntarily, just as sobs escape involuntarily from others stricken with grief, because he was (so) full of the passion of love (that) there was no room for any care about relieving the pain of the thorns to enter (his heart). (His case was) like (that of) Pharaoh's magicians and Jirjís and others (who are) innumerable and beyond computation.
  • قصه‌ی احد احد گفتن بلال در حر حجاز از محبت مصطفی علیه‌السلام در آن چاشتگاهها کی خواجه‌اش از تعصب جهودی به شاخ خارش می‌زد پیش آفتاب حجاز و از زخم خون از تن بلال برمی‌جوشید ازو احد احد می‌جست بی‌قصد او چنانک از دردمندان دیگر ناله جهد بی‌قصد زیرا از درد عشق ممتلی بود اهتمام دفع درد خار را مدخل نبود هم‌چون سحره‌ی فرعون و جرجیس و غیر هم لایعد و لا یحصی 

  • That Bilál was devoting his body to the (scourge of) thorns: his master was flogging him by way of correction,
  • تن فدای خار می‌کرد آن بلال  ** خواجه‌اش می‌زد برای گوشمال 

  • Saying, “Why dost thou celebrate Ahmad (Mohammed)? Wicked slave, thou disbelievest in my religion!”
  • که چرا تو یاد احمد می‌کنی  ** بنده‌ی بد منکر دین منی 

  • He was beating him in the sun with thorns (while) he (Bilál) cried vauntingly “One!” 890
  • می‌زد اندر آفتابش او به خار  ** او احد می‌گفت بهر افتخار 

  • Till (at last) those cries of “One!” reached the ears of the Siddíq (Abú Bakr), who was passing in that neighbourhood.
  • تا که صدیق آن طرف بر می‌گذشت  ** آن احد گفتن به گوش او برفت 

  • His eyes became filled with tears and his heart with trouble, (for) from that “One!” he caught the scent of a loving friend (of God).
  • چشم او پر آب شد دل پر عنا  ** زان احد می‌یافت بوی آشنا 

  • Afterwards he saw him (Bilál) in private and admonished him, saying, “Keep thy belief hidden from the Jews.
  • بعد از آن خلوت بدیدش پند داد  ** کز جهودان خفیه می‌دار اعتقاد 

  • He (God) knows (all) secrets: conceal thy desire.” He (Bilál) said, “I repent before thee, O prince.”
  • عالم السرست پنهان دار کام  ** گفت کردم توبه پیشت ای همام 

  • Early next day, (when) the Siddíq was going quickly in that district on account of some affair, 895
  • روز دیگر از پگه صدیق تفت  ** آن طرف از بهر کاری می‌برفت 

  • He again heard (cries of) “One!” and (the sound of) blows inflicted by the (scourge of) thorns: flames and sparks of fire were kindled in his heart.
  • باز احد بشنید و ضرب زخم خار  ** برفروزید از دلش سوز و شرار 

  • He admonished him once more, and once more he (Bilál) repented; (but) Love came and consumed his repentance.
  • باز پندش داد باز او توبه کرد  ** عشق آمد توبه‌ی او را بخورد 

  • There was much repenting of this sort, (till) at last he became quit of repentance,
  • توبه کردن زین نمط بسیار شد  ** عاقبت از توبه او بیزار شد 

  • And proclaimed (his faith) and yielded up his body to tribulation, crying, “O Mohammed, O enemy of vows of repentance,
  • فاش کرد اسپرد تن را در بلا  ** کای محمد ای عدو توبه‌ها