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  • شید آوردی که تا جغدان ما  ** مر ترا سازند شاه و پیشوا 
  • Thou hast employed hypocrisy in order that our owls may make thee (their) king and leader.
  • وهم و سودایی دریشان می‌تنی  ** نام این فردوس ویران می‌کنی 
  • Thou art instilling into them a vain imagination and a mad fancy: thou art giving the name “ruin” to this Paradise.
  • بر سرت چندان زنیم ای بد صفات  ** که بگویی ترک شید و ترهات 
  • We will beat thy head so long, O (bird) of evil qualities, that thou wilt renounce this hypocrisy and nonsense.’
  • پیش مشرق چارمیخش می‌کنند  ** تن برهنه شاخ خارش می‌زنند  965
  • They (the Jews) are crucifying him (Bilál), his face to the East, and flogging his naked body with a thorny branch.
  • از تنش صد جای خون بر می‌جهد  ** او احد می‌گوید و سر می‌نهد 
  • The blood is spurting from his body in a hundred places, (whilst) he is crying ‘One!’ and bowing his head (in resignation).
  • پندها دادم که پنهان دار دین  ** سر بپوشان از جهودان لعین 
  • I admonished him often, saying, ‘Keep thy religion hidden, conceal thy secret from the accursed Jews.’
  • عاشق است او را قیامت آمدست  ** تا در توبه برو بسته شدست 
  • (But) he is a lover: to him the (spiritual) resurrection has come, so that the door of repentance has been shut on him.”
  • عاشقی و توبه یا امکان صبر  ** این محالی باشد ای جان بس سطبر 
  • Loverhood and repentance or (even) the possibility of patience—this, O (dear) soul, is a very enormous absurdity.
  • توبه کردم و عشق هم‌چون اژدها  ** توبه وصف خلق و آن وصف خدا  970
  • Repentance is a worm, while Love is like a dragon: repentance is an attribute of Man, while that (other) is an attribute of God.
  • عشق ز اوصاف خدای بی‌نیاز  ** عاشقی بر غیر او باشد مجاز 
  • Love is (one) of the attributes of God who wants nothing: love for aught besides Him is unreal,
  • زانک آن حسن زراندود آمدست  ** ظاهرش نور اندرون دود آمدست 
  • Because that (which is besides Him) is (but) a gilded beauty: its outside is (shining) light, (but) ’tis (like dark) smoke within.
  • چون رود نور و شود پیدا دخان  ** بفسرد عشق مجازی آن زمان 
  • When the light goes and the smoke becomes visible, at that moment the unreal love is frozen up.
  • وا رود آن حسن سوی اصل خود  ** جسم ماند گنده و رسوا و بد 
  • That beauty returns to its source; the body is left—foul-smelling, shameful, and ugly.
  • نور مه راجع شود هم سوی ماه  ** وا رود عکسش ز دیوار سیاه  975
  • The moonlight is returning to the moon: its reflexion goes off the black (dark) wall;
  • پس بماند آب و گل بی آن نگار  ** گردد آن دیوار بی مه دیووار 
  • And then, (when) the water and clay (of the wall) are left without that ornament, the wall, (being) moonless, becomes (hideous) as a devil.
  • قلب را که زر ز روی او بجست  ** بازگشت آن زر بکان خود نشست 
  • When the gold flies from the surface of the base coin, that gold returns to its (original) mine and settles (there);
  • پس مس رسوا بماند دود وش  ** زو سیه‌روتر بماند عاشقش 
  • Then the shamefully exposed copper is left (looking black) like smoke, and its lover is left looking blacker than it.
  • عشق بینایان بود بر کان زر  ** لاجرم هر روز باشد بیشتر 
  • (But) the love of them that have (spiritual) insight is (fixed) on the gold-mine; necessarily it is (grows) greater every day,
  • زانک کان را در زری نبود شریک  ** مرحبا ای کان زر لاشک فیک  980
  • Because the mine hath no partner in aureity. Hail, O Gold-mine (of Reality), Thou concerning whom there is no doubt!
  • هر که قلبی را کند انباز کان  ** وا رود زر تا بکان لامکان 
  • If any one let a base coin become a sharer with the Mine (in his affection), the gold goes back to the Mine (which is) beyond locality,
  • عاشق و معشوق مرده ز اضطراب  ** مانده ماهی رفته زان گرداب آب 
  • (And then) the lover and his beloved are dead (left to die) in agony: the fish is left (writhing), the water is gone from the whirlpool.
  • عشق ربانیست خورشید کمال  ** امر نور اوست خلقان چون ظلال 
  • The Divine Love is the Sun of perfection: the (Divine) Word is its light, the creatures are as shadows.
  • مصطفی زین قصه چون خوش برشکفت  ** رغبت افزون گشت او را هم بگفت 
  • When Mustafá (Mohammed) expanded with joy on (hearing) this story, his (the Siddíq's) desire to speak (of Bilál) increased also.
  • مستمع چون یافت هم‌چون مصطفی  ** هر سر مویش زبانی شد جدا  985
  • Since he found a hearer like Mustafá, every hair of him became a separate tongue.
  • مصطفی گفتش که اکنون چاره چیست  ** گفت این بنده مر او را مشتریست 
  • Mustafá said to him, “Now what is the remedy?” He (the Siddíq) replied, “This servant (of God) is going to buy him.