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2789-2798

  • The exceedingly frightful torrent set its face towards the town: the townsfolk (were) making loud lamentation, all (were) terrified.
  • رو به شهر آورد سیل بس مهیب ** اهل شهر افغان‌کنان جمله رعیب
  • The Prophet said, “Now the time is come for the test, in order that opinion may become ocular vision.” 2790
  • گفت پیغامبر که وقت امتحان ** آمد اکنون تا گمارد گردد عیان
  • Each Amír flung his lance (into the flood), that in the test it might become a barrier against the torrent.
  • هر امیری نیزه‌ی خود در فکند ** تا شود در امتحان آن سیل‌بند
  • Then Mustafá (Mohammed) cast his wand upon it—that sovereign wand that reduced (his foes) to helplessness.
  • پس قضیب انداخت در وی مصطفی ** آن قضیب معجز فرمان روا
  • The rapid water of the boiling tameless torrent swept away the lances like a bit of straw.
  • نیزه‌ها را هم‌چو خاشاکی ربود ** آب تیز سیل پرجوش عنود
  • All the lances disappeared, while that wand stood on the surface of the water like a sentry.
  • نیزه‌ها گم گشت جمله و آن قضیب ** بر سر آب ایستاده چون رقیب
  • From anxious regard for that wand the mighty torrent turned its face away, and the flood-water departed. 2795
  • ز اهتمام آن قضیب آن سیل زفت ** روبگردانید و آن سیلاب رفت
  • When they beheld that great matter wrought by him, those Amírs, (overcome) by dread, confessed—
  • چون بدیدند از وی آن امر عظیم ** پس مقر گشتند آن میران ز بیم
  • Save three persons, whose rancour was prevailing: they, from disbelief, called him a magician and soothsayer.
  • جز سه کس که حقد ایشان چیره بود ** ساحرش گفتند و کاهی از جحود
  • The kingship that has been tied on (artificially) is weak like that; the kingship that has grown up (naturally) is august like this.
  • ملک بر بسته چنان باشد ضعیف ** ملک بر رسته چنین باشد شریف