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175-184

  • نه طریق و نه رفیق و نه امان ** دست کرده آن فرشته سوی جان 175
  • (When there is) neither way (of escape) nor comrade (to help) nor (hope of) quarter, (and when) the Angel (of Death) has put out his hand to (seize) the soul.
  • آنچنان کین زن در آن حجره جفا ** خشک شد او و حریفش ز ابتلا
  • (Such is the state of the hypocrite), even as this woman in that chamber of iniquity was paralysed, she and her companion, by the tribulation.
  • گفت صوفی با دل خود کای دو گبر ** از شما کینه کشم لیکن به صبر
  • The Súfí said to himself, ‘O ye two miscreants, I will take vengeance on you, but with patience.
  • لیک نادانسته آرم این نفس ** تا که هر گوشی ننوشد این جرس
  • (I will not act in haste) but at this moment I will feign ignorance, that every ear may not hear this bell.’
  • از شما پنهان کشد کینه محق ** اندک اندک هم‌چو بیماری دق
  • He (God) who manifests the right takes vengeance on you secretly, little by little, like the malady of phthisis.
  • مرد دق باشد چو یخ هر لحظه کم ** لیک پندارد بهر دم بهترم 180
  • The man suffering from phthisis dwindles incessantly like ice, but at every moment he thinks he is better.
  • هم‌چو کفتاری که می‌گیرندش و او ** غره‌ی آن گفت کین کفتار کو
  • (He is) like the hyena which they (the hunters) are catching, and which is duped by their saying, ‘Where is this hyena?’
  • هیچ پنهان‌خانه آن زن را نبود ** سمج و دهلیز و ره بالا نبود
  • That woman had no secret room; she had no subterranean cellar or passage, no way to the top (of the house),
  • نه تنوری که در آن پنهان شود ** نه جوالی که حجاب آن شود
  • No oven where he (her lover) might be concealed, nor any sack that might be a screen for him.
  • هم‌چو عرصه‌ی پهن روز رستخیز ** نه گو و نه پشته نه جای گریز
  • ’Twas like the broad plain of Resurrection Day—no hollow or hillock or place of refuge.