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  • گفت چون قلبی و نقدی دم زنند ** که تو قلبی من تکویم ارجمند
  • He (the other) said, ‘When a base and a genuine coin boast, saying (to each other), “Thou art base; I am good and valuable,”
  • هست آتش امتحان آخرین ** کاندر آتش در فتند این دو قرین
  • Fire is the final test: (the test is) that these two rivals should be dropped into the fire.
  • عام و خاص از حالشان عالم شوند ** از گمان و شک سوی ایقان روند
  • (Then) the vulgar and the elect will become acquainted with their (real) state and will advance from opinion and doubt to certain knowledge.
  • آب و آتش آمد ای جان امتحان ** نقد و قلبی را که آن باشد نهان
  • Water and fire, O (dear) soul, are the test for the pure and the base coin that is hidden.
  • تا من و تو هر دو در آتش رویم ** حجت باقی حیرانان شویم 2860
  • Let me and thee, both of us, go into the fire and become a lasting proof for the perplexed.
  • تا من و تو هر دو در بحر اوفتیم ** که من و تو این کره را آیتیم
  • Let me and thee, both of us, fall into the sea, for thou and I are a sign unto this multitude.’
  • هم‌چنان کردند و در آتش شدند ** هر دو خود را بر تف آتش زدند
  • Even so they did and entered the fire: both cast themselves upon the heat of the fire.
  • از خدا گوینده مرد مدعی ** رست و سوزید اندر آتش آن دعی
  • The God-proclaiming man who engaged in controversy was saved, while that bastard (impostor) was burnt in the fire.
  • از مذن بشنو این اعلام را ** کوری افزون‌روان خام را
  • Hear from the muezzin this announcement, to the confusion of the foolish transgressors,
  • که نسوزیدست این نام از اجل ** کش مسمی صدر بودست و اجل 2865
  • That this name (Mohammed) has not been burnt (destroyed) by Death, since its bearer was a prince and most noble.