فضل حق با این که او کژ می‌تند ** عاقبت زین جمله پاکش می‌کند

فضل حق با این که او کژ می‌تند ** عاقبت زین جمله پاکش می‌کند 195

(But) notwithstanding that he weaves crookedly, in the end the grace of God will purge him of all this (hypocrisy).

سبق برده رحمتش وان غدر را ** داده نوری که نباشد بدر را

His (God's) mercy takes precedence (over His wrath) and bestows on that treachery (hypocrisy) a light that the full-moon does not possess.

کوششش را شسته حق زین اختلاط ** غسل داده رحمت او را زین خباط

God cleanses his effort of this contamination: the (Divine) Mercy washes him clean of this folly.

تا که غفاری او ظاهر شود ** مغفری کلیش را غافر شود

In order that His great forgivingness may be made manifest, a helmet (of forgiveness) will cover his (the hypocrite's) baldness.

آب بهر این ببارید از سماک ** تا پلیدان را کند از خبث پاک

The water rained from heaven, that it might cleanse the impure of their defilement.

پاک کردن آب همه پلیدیها را و باز پاک کردن خدای تعالی آب را از پلیدی لاجرم قدوس آمد حق تعالی

How the water cleanses all impurities and then is cleansed of impurity by God most High. Verily, God most High is exceeding holy.

آب چون پیگار کرد و شد نجس ** تا چنان شد که آب را رد کرد حس 200

When the water had done battle (in its task of ablution) and had been made dirty and had become such that the senses rejected it,

حق ببردش باز در بحر صواب ** تا به شستش از کرم آن آب آب

God brought it back into the sea of Goodness, that the Origin of the water might generously wash it (clean).

سال دیگر آمد او دامن‌کشان ** هی کجا بودی به دریای خوشان

Next year it came sweeping proudly along. “Hey, where hast thou been?” “In the sea of the pure.

من نجس زینجا شدم پاک آمدم ** بستدم خلعت سوی خاک آمدم

I went from here dirty; I have come (back) clean. I have received a robe of honour, I have come to the earth (again).

هین بیایید ای پلیدان سوی من ** که گرفت از خوی یزدان خوی من

Hark, come unto me, O ye polluted ones, for my nature hath partaken of the nature of God.