کانچ ما کردیم ای سلطان مکن ** نیست ما را روی ایراد سخن

And said, “O (spiritual) sovereign, do not that which we did we have not the face to offer words (of excuse).

پاره پاره گردمت فرمان‌پذیر ** من بعزت خوگرم سختم مگیر

I will become obedient to thy command with every bit (of my body); I am accustomed to be held in honour: do not deal hardly with me.

هین بجنبان لب به رحمت ای امین ** تا ببندد این دهانه‌ی آتشین

Hark, move thy lips in mercy, O trusted one, that it (thy prayer) may shut this fiery mouth (of Divine anger).”

گفت یا رب می‌فریبد او مرا ** می‌فریبد او فریبنده‌ی ترا 3595

He (Moses) said, “O Lord, he is deceiving me; he is deceiving Thy deceiver.

بشنوم یا من دهم هم خدعه‌اش ** تا بداند اصل را آن فرع‌کش

Shall I hearken (to him) or shall I too give him deceit (in return), in order that that puller of the branch may recognise the root?

که اصل هر مکری و حیلت پیش ماست ** هر چه بر خاکست اصلش از سماست

For the root (origin) of every cunning and contrivance is with use: whatsoever is on the earth, its root (origin) is from Heaven.”

گفت حق آن سگ نیرزد هم به آن ** پیش سگ انداز از دور استخوان

God said (to Moses), “That cur (Pharaoh) is not worth even that: fling a bone to the cur from a distance.

هین بجنبان آن عصا تا خاکها ** وا دهد هرچه ملخ کردش فنا

Hark, shake the rod, so that the sods may give back whatever the locusts have destroyed,

وان ملخها در زمان گردد سیاه ** تا ببیند خلق تبدیل اله 3600

And let the locusts immediately become black, that the people may behold the transformation wrought by God;

که سببها نیست حاجت مر مرا ** آن سبب بهر حجابست و غطا

For I have no need of means: those means are (only) for the purpose of (serving as) a screen and covering,