The Prophet, then, apprehended their words and said, “That laughter of mine was not from hostility.4535
پس رسول آن گفتشان را فهم کرد ** گفت آن خنده نبودم از نبرد
They (the captives) are dead and rotted by decay: in my judgement it is not the part of a (true) man to kill the dead.
مرده‌اند ایشان و پوسیده‌ی فنا ** مرده کشتن نیست مردی پیش ما
Who are they indeed? for the moon is split when I plant my foot on the battlefield.
خود کیند ایشان که مه گردد شکاف ** چونک من پا بفشرم اندر مصاف
At the time when ye were free and powerful, I was seeing you bound (in chains), like this.
آنگهی کزاد بودیت و مکین ** مر شما را بسته می‌دیدم چنین
O thou that pridest thyself on thy possessions and household, in the view of the intelligent thou art (as) the camel on the water-spout.
ای بنازیده به ملک و خاندان ** نزد عاقل اشتری بر ناودان
(Ever) since the bowl, (which is) the bodily form, fell from the roof, there has rolled before my (inward) eye (the reality denoted by the words) ‘Everything that is (destined) to come shall come.’4540
نقش تن را تا فتاد از بام طشت ** پیش چشمم کل آت آت گشت
I look on the unripe grape, and I see the wine clearly; I look on nonentity, and I see the entity clearly.
بنگرم در غوره می بینم عیان ** بنگرم در نیست شی بینم عیان
I look on the inmost consciousness, and I see a universe hidden, (with) Adam and Eve not (yet) arisen from the world.
بنگرم سر عالمی بینم نهان ** آدم و حوا نرسته از جهان
You I have seen, fettered and overthrown and abject, at the time (when mankind were assembled in the shape) of ants (on the Day) of Alast.
مر شما را وقت ذرات الست ** دیده‌ام پا بسته و منکوس و پست
That which I had (already) known was not increased by the coming into existence of the pillarless heaven.