- (There were) both night and clouds and huge waves: these three darknesses, and (also) fear of (being drowned in) the whirlpool. 2180
- هم شب و هم ابر و هم موج عظیم ** این سه تاریکی و از غرقاب بیم
- A fierce wind, like ‘Azrá’íl, arose; the waves tossed on left and right.
- تند بادی همچو عزرائیل خاست ** موجها آشوفت اندر چپ و راست
- The people in the ship were faint with terror: cries of woe had arisen,
- اهل کشتی از مهابت کاسته ** نعره وا ویلها برخاسته
- And in lamentation they were beating their heads with their hands: infidel and deist—they all had become sincere (in devotion to God),
- دستها در نوحه بر سر می‌زدند ** کافر و ملحد همه مخلص شدند
- Making heartfelt promises and vows to God with a hundred humble entreaties in that hour.
- با خدا با صد تضرع آن زمان ** عهدها و نذرها کرده بجان
- Bare-headed in the prostrate attitude (of Divine worship) were those whose faces, because of (their) perversity, had never seen the qibla at all. 2185
- سر برهنه در سجود آنها که هیچ ** رویشان قبله ندید از پیچ پیچ
- They (formerly) said, “This worship of God is useless”; (but) in that hour (of despair) they saw a hundred lives (precious advantages) therein.
- گفته که بی‌فایده‌ست این بندگی ** آن زمان دیده در آن صد زندگی
- They had entirely abandoned hope of all—of friends and maternal and paternal uncles and father and mother.
- از همه اومید ببریده تمام ** دوستان و خال و عم بابا و مام
- At that moment ascetic and reprobate (alike) had become God-fearing as a wicked man at the time of the death-agony.
- زاهد و فاسق شد آن دم متقی ** همچو در هنگام جان کندن شقی
- Neither on the left nor on the right was there any help for them: when (all) expedients are dead, (then) is the time to invoke God.
- نه ز چپشان چاره بود و نه ز راست ** حیله‌ها چون مرد هنگام دعاست