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2866-2915

  • 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

  • Thinking, “Grey-haired and venerable old men like these— this Prophet is putting them to shame.
  • که چنین پیران با شیب و وقار ** می‏کندشان این پیمبر شرمسار

  • Where is generosity? Where cloaking (of sins)? Where modesty (respect for the feelings of others)? The prophets cover up hundreds of thousands of faults.” 2890
  • کو کرم کو ستر پوشی کو حیا ** صد هزاران عیب پوشند انبیا

  • Quickly, again, in his heart he asked pardon of God, lest he should be disgraced for objecting (to the Prophet's behaviour).
  • باز در دل زود استغفار کرد ** تا نگردد ز اعتراض او روی زرد

  • The turpitude of befriending the Hypocrites made the true believer wicked and rebellious like them.
  • شومی یاری اصحاب نفاق ** کرد مومن را چو ایشان زشت و عاق‏

  • Again he was crying in supplication, “O Thou who knowest the inmost consciousness, do not leave me persisting in unbelief!
  • باز می‏زارید کای علام سر ** مر مرا مگذار بر کفران مصر

  • My heart is not in my control, as (my) eyesight (is); else I would at this moment burn my heart in anger.”
  • دل به دستم نیست همچون دید چشم ** ور نه دل را سوزمی این دم به خشم‏

  • (Whilst he was) in this thought, slumber seized him. To him (dreaming), their mosque seemed full of dung: 2895
  • اندر این اندیشه خوابش در ربود ** مسجد ایشانش پر سرگین نمود

  • A corrupted place, its stones (steeped) in filth: from the stones floated up black smoke.
  • سنگهاش اندر حدث جای تباه ** می‏دمید از سنگها دود سیاه‏

  • The smoke went into his throat and made it smart: terrified by the bitter smoke, he sprang from sleep.
  • دود در حلقش شد و حلقش بخست ** از نهیب دود تلخ از خواب جست‏

  • Forthwith he fell on his face and wept, saying, “O God, these things are the sign of (their) disbelief.
  • در زمان در رو فتاد و می‏گریست ** کای خدا اینها نشان منکری است‏

  • Wrath (against them) is better, O God, than such forbearance (as mine), which separates me from the light of Faith.”
  • خلم بهتر از چنین حلم ای خدا ** که کند از نور ایمانم جدا

  • If you scrutinise the labour of them that follow falsehood, (you will se that) it is stinking, coat upon coat, like an onion— 2900
  • گر بکاوی کوشش اهل مجاز ** تو به تو گنده بود همچون پیاز

  • Every one (of their efforts) more pithless than another, (while), in the case of the sincere, (every effort) is more excellent than the other.
  • هر یکی از یکدیگر بی‏مغزتر ** صادقان را یک ز دیگر نغزتر

  • Those folk (the Hypocrites) tied a hundred belts on their mantles in order to destroy the Mosque of the people of Qubá—
  • صد کمر آن قوم بسته بر قبا ** بهر هدم مسجد اهل قبا

  • Even as the Lords of the Elephant (who abode) in Abyssinia made a Ka‘ba, (but) God set it afire;
  • همچو آن اصحاب فیل اندر حبش ** کعبه‏ای کردند حق آتش زدش‏

  • (And then) they (the Abyssinians) made an attempt on the Ka‘ba in revenge: read from the Word (of God) how they fared!
  • قصد کعبه ساختند از انتقام ** حالشان چون شد فرو خوان از کلام‏

  • The reprobates of the Religion have indeed no equipment but cunning and deceit and contentiousness. 2905
  • مر سیه رویان دین را خود جهیز ** نیست الا حیلت و مکر و ستیز

  • Every Companion saw plainly (in sleep) some vision of that Mosque, so that the secret (purpose) of it became to them certain knowledge.
  • هر صحابی دید ز آن مسجد عیان ** واقعه تا شد یقینشان سر آن‏

  • If I should relate the visions, one by one, then the purity (of the Companions) would become certain to them that doubt;
  • واقعات ار باز گویم یک به یک ** پس یقین گردد صفا بر اهل شک‏

  • But I am afraid of revealing their mystery: they are the disdainful loved ones (of God), and disdain beseems them.
  • لیک می‏ترسم ز کشف رازشان ** نازنینانند و زیبد نازشان‏

  • They have received the (religious) Law (directly from God) without mechanical imitation (of others): they have taken that (unadulterated) coin without (applying) the touchstone.
  • شرع بی‏تقلید می‏پذرفته‏اند ** بی‏محک آن نقد را بگرفته‏اند

  • The Wisdom of the Qur’án is like the true believer's stray camel: every one has certain (intuitive) knowledge of his own stray. 2910
  • حکمت قرآن چو ضاله‏ی مومن است ** هر کسی در ضاله‏ی خود موقن است‏

  • Story of the person who was seeking after his stray camel and inquiring about it.
  • قصه‏ی آن شخص که اشتر ضاله‏ی خود می‏جست و می‏پرسید

  • (If) you have lost a camel and sought it busily, how should you not know,when you find it, that it is yours?
  • اشتری گم کردی و جستیش چست ** چون بیابی چون ندانی کان تست‏

  • What is the stray? You have lost a she-camel: (she has) fled from your herd into a veil (of concealment).
  • ضاله چه بود ناقه‏ای گم کرده‏ای ** از کفت بگریخته در پرده‏ای‏

  • The caravaneers have begun to load, (but) your camel has disappeared from the midst (of the caravan).
  • آمده در بار کردن کاروان ** اشتر تو ز آن میان گشته نهان‏

  • You are running to and fro with parched lips; the caravan is (now) far away, and night is near.
  • می‏دوی این سو و آن سو خشک لب ** کاروان شد دور و نزدیک است شب‏

  • Your baggage is left on the ground, (lying) on the road of peril, (whilst) you are running about in search of the camel, 2915
  • رخت مانده بر زمین در راه خوف ** تو پی اشتر دوان گشته به طوف‏