چند آن فرعون می‌شد نرم و رام ** چون شنیدی او ز موسی آن کلام

چند آن فرعون می‌شد نرم و رام ** چون شنیدی او ز موسی آن کلام 1240

How many a time did Pharaoh soften and become submissive when he was hearing that Word from Moses!—

آن کلامی که بدادی سنگ شیر ** از خوشی آن کلام بی‌نظیر

That Word (which was such) that from the sweetness of that incomparable Word the rock would have yielded milk.

چون بهامان که وزیرش بود او ** مشورت کردی که کینش بود خو

Whenever he took counsel with Hámán, who was his vizier and whose nature it was to hate,

پس بگفتی تا کنون بودی خدیو ** بنده گردی ژنده‌پوشی را بریو

Then he (Hámán) would say, “Until now thou hast been the Khedive: wilt thou become, through deception, the slave to a wearer of rags?”

هم‌چو سنگ منجنیقی آمدی ** آن سخن بر شیشه خانه‌ی او زدی

Those words would come like a stone shot by a mangonel (ballista) and strike upon his glass house.

هر چه صد روز آن کلیم خوش‌خطاب ** ساختی در یک‌دم او کردی خراب 1245

All that the Kalím of sweet address built up in a hundred days he (Hámán) would destroy in one moment.

عقل تو دستور و مغلوب هواست ** در وجودت ره‌زن راه خداست

Thy intellect is the vizier and is overcome by sensuality: in (the realm of) thy being it is a brigand (that attacks thee) on the Way to God.

ناصحی ربانیی پندت دهد ** آن سخن را او به فن طرحی نهد

(If) a godly monitor give thee good advice, it will artfully put those words (of his) aside,

کین نه بر جایست هین از جا مشو ** نیست چندان با خود آ شیدا مشو

Saying, “These (words) are not well-founded: take heed, don't be carried away (by them); they are not (worth) so much: come to thyself (be sensible), don't be crazed.”

وای آن شه که وزیرش این بود ** جای هر دو دوزخ پر کین بود

Alas for the king whose vizier is this (carnal intellect): the place (abode) of them both is vengeful Hell.