Since fidelity is the badge by which the dogs are known, begone and do not bring opprobrium and ill-fame upon the dogs.”
مر سگان را چون وفا آمد شعار ** رو سگان را ننگ و بدنامی میار
Inasmuch as unfaithfulness has (always) been a disgrace (even) to dogs, how shouldst thou deem it right to show unfaithfulness?
بیوفایی چون سگان را عار بود ** بیوفایی چون روا داری نمود
The high God hath boasted of faithfulness: He hath said, “Who but I am most faithful in keeping a promise?”
حق تعالی فخر آورد از وفا ** گفت من اوفی بعهد غیرنا
Know that faithfulness (to others when it is accompanied) with rejection of God is unfaithfulness: no one hath precedence over (hath a prior claim to) God's rights.
بیوفایی دان وفا با رد حق ** بر حقوق حق ندارد کس سبق
Thy mother's right (only) arose after that Bounteous One had made her indebted (to Him) for thy embryo.325
حق مادر بعد از آن شد کان کریم ** کرد او را از جنین تو غریم
He bestowed on thee a form within her body, He gave ease to her during pregnancy and accustomed her (to the burden).
صورتی کردت درون جسم او ** داد در حملش ورا آرام و خو
She deemed thee as a part joined (to herself); His providence separated (from her) that which was joined.
همچو جزو متصل دید او ترا ** متصل را کرد تدبیرش جدا
God hath prepared thousands of artifices and contrivances, so that thy mother hath thrown (her) love upon thee.
حق هزاران صنعت و فن ساختست ** تا که مادر بر تو مهر انداختست
Therefore God's right is prior to (that of) the mother: whoever does not recognise that right is an ass.
پس حق حق سابق از مادر بود ** هر که آن حق را نداند خر بود
(If thou deny it), do not even admit that He created mother, teat, and milk, and united her with the father!330
آنک مادر آفرید و ضرع و شیر ** با پدر کردش قرین آن خود مگیر