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3440-3449

  • Verily beneath this azure sky there was no (other) colt like that in (tallness and comeliness of) figure and in fleetness. 3440
  • الحق اندر زیر این چرخ کبود  ** آن‌چنان کره به قد و تگ نبود 
  • Its colour (splendid appearance) dazzled every eye: (all would exclaim), “Hail to the (steed) born of the lightning and the moon!”
  • می‌ربودی رنگ او هر دیده را  ** مرحب آن از برق و مه زاییده را 
  • It moved as swiftly as the moon and Mercury: you might say that its fodder was the sarsar wind, not barley.
  • هم‌چو مه هم‌چون عطارد تیزرو  ** گوییی صرصر علف بودش نه جو 
  • The moon traverses the expanse of heaven in one night during a single journey and course.
  • ماه عرصه‌ی آسمان را در شبی  ** می‌برد اندر مسیر و مذهبی 
  • Since the moon traversed the signs of the zodiac in one night, wherefore wilt thou disbelieve the Ascension (of the Prophet)?
  • چون به یک شب مه برید ابراج را  ** از چه منکر می‌شوی معراج را 
  • That wondrous orphan Pearl is as a hundred moons, for at a nod from him the moon became (split in) two halves. 3445
  • صد چو ماهست آن عجب در یتیم  ** که به یک ایماء او شد مه دو نیم 
  • (Even) the marvel which he displayed in splitting the moon was only according to the measure of the weakness of the perception possessed by the (common) people.
  • آن عجب کو در شکاف مه نمود  ** هم به قدر ضعف حس خلق بود 
  • The work and business of the prophets and (Divine) messengers is beyond the skies and the stars.
  • کار و بار انبیا و مرسلون  ** هست از افلاک و اخترها برون 
  • Do thou also go beyond (transcend) the skies and the revolving (orb), and then contemplate that work and business.
  • تو برون رو هم ز افلاک و دوار  ** وانگهان نظاره کن آن کار و بار 
  • (Whilst) thou art inside the egg, like chicks, thou canst not hear the glorification of God by the birds of the (supermundane) air.
  • در میان بیضه‌ای چون فرخ‌ها  ** نشنوی تسبیح مرغان هوا