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  • Alas! would that those words had been from the heart, so that the desire of those folk might have been accomplished!
  • ای دریغا کان سخن از دل بدی ** تا مراد آن نفر حاصل شدی‏

  • Courtesy that comes to the tongue without (sincerity of) heart and soul is like herbs on the ash-heap, O friends. 2840
  • لطف کاید بی‏دل و جان در زبان ** همچو سبزه‏ی تون بود ای دوستان‏

  • Look at them from afar and pass on: they are not fit for eating or smelling, O son.
  • هم ز دورش بنگر و اندر گذر ** خوردن و بو را نشاید ای پسر

  • Beware, do not go (incline) towards the courtesy of the faithless, for it is a ruined bridge: heed well (my warning).
  • سوی لطف بی‏وفایان هین مرو ** کان پل ویران بود نیکو شنو

  • If a fool set foot on it, the bridge will break, and will shatter that foot of his.
  • گر قدم را جاهلی بر وی زند ** بشکند پل و آن قدم را بشکند

  • Wherever an army is routed, it is because of two or three effeminate weaklings.
  • هر کجا لشکر شکسته می‏شود ** او دو سه سست مخنث می‏بود

  • He (the poltroon) comes armed into the battle-line, like a man: they (the soldiers) put their trust in him, saying, “Here's the Comrade of the Cave.” 2845
  • در صف آید با سلاح او مردوار ** دل بر او بنهند کاینک یار غار

  • He turns his face (in flight) when he sees wounds: his going breaks your back.
  • رو بگرداند چو بیند زخمها ** رفتن او بشکند پشت ترا

  • This (topic) is long and is expanding, and that which is aimed at is becoming hidden (from sight).
  • این دراز است و فراوان می‏شود ** و آن چه مقصود است پنهان می‏شود

  • How the Hypocrites cajoled the Prophet—God bless and save him!—that they might take him to the Mosque of Opposition.
  • فریفتن منافقان پیغامبر را تا به مسجد ضرارش برند

  • They chanted spells over (spoke deceitful words to) the Messenger of God: they were driving (hard) the steed of cunning and craft.
  • بر رسول حق فسون‏ها خواندند ** رخش دستان و حیل می‏راندند

  • The kind and compassionate Messenger proffered (in reply) nothing but smiles, nothing but “Yes.”
  • آن رسول مهربان رحم کیش ** جز تبسم جز بلی ناورد پیش‏

  • He expressed (his) thanks to that company (deputation): he gladdened the envoys in (by) assent. 2850
  • شکرهای آن جماعت یاد کرد ** در اجابت قاصدان را شاد کرد

  • Their deceit was apparent to him, point by point, in the same way as hairs in milk.
  • می‏نمود آن مکر ایشان پیش او ** یک به یک ز آن سان که اندر شیر مو

  • That courteous one feigned not to see the hairs: that polite one said “Bravo!” to the milk.
  • موی را نادیده می‏کرد آن لطیف ** شیر را شاباش می‏گفت آن ظریف‏

  • Myriad hairs of deceit and fraud (he beheld), and at that time he closed his eyes to it all.
  • صد هزاران موی مکر و دمدمه ** چشم خوابانید آن دم ز ان همه‏

  • That ocean of bounty spoke truly (when he said), “I am kinder unto you than you (yourselves are).
  • راست می‏فرمود آن بحر کرم ** بر شما من از شما مشفق‏ترم‏

  • I am seated at the edge of a fire with an exceedingly unpleasant blaze and flame; 2855
  • من نشسته بر کنار آتشی ** با فروغ و شعله‏ی بس ناخوشی‏

  • Ye are hastening towards it like moths, (while) both my hands have become moth-flaps (to beat you off).”
  • همچو پروانه شما آن سو دوان ** هر دو دست من شده پروانه ران‏

  • When the Prophet had resolved to set out (to the Mosque), the jealousy of God cried, “Do not hearken to the ghoul!
  • چون بر آن شد تا روان گردد رسول ** غیرت حق بانگ زد مشنو ز غول‏

  • For these wicked men have used deceit and cunning: what they have put forward is entirely the reverse (of the truth).
  • کاین خبیثان مکر و حیلت کرده‏اند ** جمله مقلوب است آنچ آورده‏اند

  • Their intent was nothing but (to bring) black shame (upon thee): when have Christians or Jews sought the welfare of the (true) Religion?
  • قصد ایشان جز سیه رویی نبود ** خیر دین کی جست ترسا و جهود

  • They (the Hypocrites) have built a mosque upon Hell's bridge: they have played the game of trickery with God. 2860
  • مسجدی بر جسر دوزخ ساختند ** با خدا نرد دغاها باختند

  • Their aim is to cause disunion amongst the Companions of the Prophet: how should any vain fool understand the grace of God?
  • قصدشان تفریق اصحاب رسول ** فضل حق را کی شناسد هر فضول‏

  • (They have built the Mosque) in order that they may fetch hither a Jew from Syria, with whose preaching the Jews are intoxicated.”
  • تا جهودی را ز شام اینجا کشند ** که به وعظ او جهودان سر خوشند

  • The Prophet said (to the Hypocrites), “Yes (I will do as ye wish), but (just now) we are intending to march and starting on a campaign.
  • گفت پیغمبر که آری لیک ما ** بر سر راهیم و بر عزم غزا

  • As soon as I return from this expedition, I will then set out to that Mosque at once.”
  • زین سفر چون باز گردم آن گهان ** سوی آن مسجد روان گردم روان‏

  • He (thus) put them off and hurried to the field of war: he played a game of trickery with the tricksters. 2865
  • دفعشان کرد و به سوی غزو تاخت ** با دغایان از دغا نردی بباخت‏

  • When he came back from the campaign, they returned and laid hold of (demanded the fulfilment of) the past promise.
  • چون بیامد از غزا باز آمدند ** چنگ اندر وعده‏ی ماضی زدند

  • God said to him, “O Prophet, proclaim the excuse (pretence and dissimulation), and if war be (the consequence), say, ‘Let it be!’”
  • گفت حقش ای پیمبر فاش گو ** غدر را ور جنگ باشد باش گو

  • He (the Prophet) said, “Ye are exceedingly bad-hearted and hostile. Hush, lest I tell your secret thoughts.”
  • گفت ای قوم دغل خامش کنید ** تا نگویم رازهاتان تن زنید

  • When he had declared (to them) a few indications of their inmost thoughts, they were in evil plight.
  • چون نشانی چند از اسرارشان ** در بیان آورد بد شد کارشان‏

  • Thereupon the envoys turned back from him crying, “God forfend! God forfend!” 2870
  • قاصدان زو باز گشتند آن زمان ** حاش لله حاش لله دم زنان‏

  • Every Hypocrite, by way of fraud, brought a Qur’án under his arm to the Prophet,
  • هر منافق مصحفی زیر بغل ** سوی پیغمبر بیاورد از دغل‏

  • In order to take oaths—for oaths are a shield; (this they did) because (taking) oaths is a custom followed by the wicked.
  • بهر سوگندان که ایمان جنتی است ** ز انکه سوگندان کژان را سنتی است‏

  • Since the wicked man does not keep faith in (matters of) religion, he will break (his) oath at any time.
  • چون ندارد مرد کژ در دین وفا ** هر زمانی بشکند سوگند را

  • The righteous have no need of (taking) oath, because they have two clear (discerning) eyes.
  • راستان را حاجت سوگند نیست ** ز انکه ایشان را دو چشم روشنی است‏

  • Breach of compacts and covenants is (the result) of stupidity; keeping of oaths and faithfulness (to one's word) is the practice of him that fears God. 2875
  • نقض میثاق و عهود از احمقی است ** حفظ ایمان و وفا کار تقی است‏

  • Said the Prophet, “Shall I take your oaths as true, or the oath of God?”
  • گفت پیغمبر که سوگند شما ** راست گیرم یا که سوگند خدا

  • Again those people, the Qur’án in their hands and the seal of fasting on their lips, swore another oath,
  • باز سوگند دگر خوردند قوم ** مصحف اندر دست و بر لب مهر صوم‏

  • Saying, “By the truth of this holy and true Word (we swear) that the building of the Mosque is for God's sake.
  • که به حق این کلام پاک راست ** کان بنای مسجد از بهر خداست‏

  • In that place there is no contrivance and deceit: in that place there is (only) commemoration (of God) and sincerity and calling unto the Lord.”
  • اندر آن جا هیچ مکر و حیله نیست ** اندر آن جا ذکر و صدق و یا ربی است‏

  • The Prophet answered, “The voice of God is coming into my ear like an echo. 2880
  • گفت پیغمبر که آواز خدا ** می‏رسد در گوش من همچون صدا

  • God hath put a seal upon your ears, so that they make not haste to (hear) the voice of God.
  • مهر در گوش شما بنهاد حق ** تا به آواز خدا نارد سبق‏

  • Lo, the voice of God is coming to me distinctly: it is filtered clear for me, like the pure (liquor) from the dregs”—
  • نک صریح آواز حق می‏آیدم ** همچو صاف از درد می‏پالایدم‏

  • Even as Moses from the direction of the Bush heard the voice of God saying, “O thou of blessed fortune!”
  • همچنان که موسی از سوی درخت ** بانگ حق بشنید کای مسعود بخت‏

  • From the Bush he was hearing (the words), “Lo, I am Allah,” and together with the words there appeared (Divine) lights.
  • از درخت إنی أنا الله می‏شنید ** با کلام انوار می‏آمد پدید

  • Inasmuch as they (the Hypocrites) were left in the lurch by the light of (Divine) inspiration, they once more began to recite oaths anew. 2885
  • چون ز نور وحی در می‏ماندند ** باز نو سوگندها می‏خواندند

  • Since God calls an oath a shield, how should the quarreller lay down the shield from his hand?
  • چون خدا سوگند را خواند سپر ** کی نهد اسپر ز کف پیکارگر

  • Again the Prophet, giving (them) the lie direct, said to them in plain terms, “Ye have lied.”
  • باز پیغمبر به تکذیب صریح ** قد کذبتم گفت با ایشان فصیح‏

  • How one of the Companions—may God be well-pleased with them!—thought (to himself) disapprovingly, “Why does not the Prophet—God bless and save him!—throw a veil (over their hypocrisy)?”
  • اندیشیدن یکی از صحابه به انکار که رسول (ص) چرا ستاری نمی‏کند

  • (Their request was ignominiously refused), so that one of the Prophet's Companions conceived in his heart dislike of that recoilment,
  • تا یکی یاری ز یاران رسول ** در دلش انکار آمد ز آن نکول‏