- While that company stood up behind him. Look you, a goodly company, and an elect Imám!
- و آن جماعت در پی او در قیام ** اینت زیبا قوم و بگزیده امام
- Of a sudden his eye turned towards the sea, because he heard (cries of) “Help! Help!” (coming) from the direction of the sea.
- ناگهان چشمش سوی دریا فتاد ** چون شنید از سوی دریا داد داد
- He saw amidst the waves a ship in (the hour of its) fate, and in tribulation and an evil plight.
- در میان موج دید او کشتیی ** در قضا و در بلا و زشتیی
- (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
- They were (engaged) in invocation and lament and moaning: a black smoke went up from them to heaven. 2190
- در دعا ایشان و در زاری و آه ** بر فلک زیشان شده دود سیاه
- Then the Devil cried in enmity, “Avaunt! Avaunt! O dog-worshippers, (ye shall be afflicted with) two maladies.
- دیو آن دم از عداوت بین بین ** بانگ زد کای سگپرستان علتین
- Death and woe (to you)! O unbelievers and hypocrites, this will befall (you) in the end,
- مرگ و جسک ای اهل انکار و نفاق ** عاقبت خواهد بدن این اتفاق
- (That) after deliverance ye will rejoice to become peculiar devils for the sake of (gratifying) your lust,
- چشمتان تر باشد از بعد خلاص ** که شوید از بهر شهوت دیو خاص
- And will not remember that in the day of peril God took your hands (to save you) from His decree.”
- یادتان ناید که روزی در خطر ** دستتان بگرفت یزدان از قدر
- This cry was coming from the Devil; but these words are unheard except by a good ear. 2195
- این همیآمد ندا از دیو لیک ** این سخن را نشنود جز گوش نیک
- Mustafá (Mohammed), the Pole and the Emperor and the Sea of Purity, has told us truly,
- راست فرمودست با ما مصطفی ** قطب و شاهنشاه و دریای صفا
- That what the ignorant will see in the end the wise see from the first step.
- کانچ جاهل دید خواهد عاقبت ** عاقلان بینند ز اول مرتبت
- If matters are hidden and secret at the beginning, the wise man sees at first, while that obstinate one (sees) at last.
- کارها ز آغاز اگر غیبست و سر ** عاقل اول دید و آخر آن مصر
- The beginning thereof is concealed, and both the wise man and the ignorant will see the end in (the moment of its) manifestation;
- اولش پوشیده باشد و آخر آن ** عاقل و جاهل ببیند در عیان
- (But) if you, O contumacious one, do not see the hidden event (before it comes to pass)—when did the torrent sweep away your prudence? 2200
- گر نبینی واقعهی غیب ای عنود ** حزم را سیلاب کی اندر ربود
- What is prudence? To think ill of the world. He (the prudent man) at every moment will (expect to) see a sudden calamity.
- حزم چه بود بدگمانی بر جهان ** دم بدم بیند بلای ناگهان
- The ideas of the prudent man.
- تصورات مرد حازم