- But (the power of) asking pardon, also, is not in (our) hands: the savour of repentance is not the dessert of every inebriate.
- لیک استغفار هم در دست نیست ** ذوق توبه نقل هر سر مست نیست
- The wickedness of (his) actions and the disastrousness of (his) denial (of the Truth) had barred the way of repentance to his heart.
- زشتی اعمال و شومی جحود ** راه توبه بر دل او بسته بود
- His heart became in hardness as the face of a rock: how should repentance cleave it for sowing? 1645
- دل به سختی همچو روی سنگ گشت ** چون شکافد توبه آن را بهر کشت
- Where is one like Shu‘ayb, that by prayer he may make the mountain earth (fit) for sowing?
- چون شعیبی کو که تا او را دعا ** بهر کشتن خاک سازد کوه را
- Through the supplication and (firm) belief of that Friend (Abraham) the thing that was hard and impossible became possible.
- از نیاز و اعتقاد آن خلیل ** گشت ممکن امر صعب و مستحیل
- Or, (to give another example), through the Muqawqis' begging the Prophet a stony ground became a goodly cornfield.
- یا به دریوزهی مقوقس از رسول ** سنگلاخی مزرعی شد با اصول
- So, contrariwise, a man's disbelief turns gold into copper and peace into war.
- همچنین بر عکس آن انکار مرد ** مس کند زر را و صلحی را نبرد
- This falseness draws after it an evil transformation: it turns ground capable (of tillage) into stones and pebbles. 1650
- کهربای مسخ آمد این دغا ** خاک قابل را کند سنگ و حصا
- Nor is it granted to every heart to fall down in prayer: the wages of (Divine) mercy are not the (allotted) portion of every hireling.
- هر دلی را سجده هم دستور نیست ** مزد رحمت قسم هر مزدور نیست
- Beware! Do not commit crime and sin in reliance on (the thought), “I will repent and come to (take) refuge (with God).”
- هین بپشت آن مکن جرم و گناه ** که کنم توبه در آیم در پناه