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  • She would not believe it, and asked some one else: that person too said, ‘Yes, (it is true), O father.’
  • باورش نامد بپرسید از دگر  ** آن دگر هم گفت آری ای پدر 
  • When she became sure (of this), her face turned pale and her heart grew cold (averse) to Islam.
  • چون یقین گشتش رخ او زرد شد  ** از مسلمانی دل او سرد شد 
  • I was delivered from anxiety and torment: last night I slept sound in a peaceful sleep.
  • باز رستم من ز تشویش و عذاب  ** دوش خوش خفتم در آن بی‌خوف خواب 
  • This was the pleasure (that came) to me from his voice: in gratitude I bring (these) gifts: where is the man?” 3385
  • راحتم این بود از آواز او  ** هدیه آوردم به شکر آن مرد کو 
  • When he saw him (the muezzin), he said, “Accept the gift, for thou hast been my protector and saviour.
  • چون بدیدش گفت این هدیه پذیر  ** که مرا گشتی مجیر و دستگیر 
  • (On account of) the benefit and kindness that thou hast done to me, I have become thy slave perpetually.
  • آنچ کردی با من از احسان و بر  ** بنده‌ی تو گشته‌ام من مستمر 
  • If I were eminent in respect of property, possessions, and riches, I would fill thy mouth with gold.”
  • گر به مال و ملک و ثروت فردمی  ** من دهانت را پر از زر کردمی 
  • “The Faith of you (Moslems) is hypocrisy and falsehood: like that call to prayer, it waylays (the seeker and prevents him from embracing Islam);
  • هست ایمان شما زرق و مجاز  ** راه‌زن هم‌چون که آن بانگ نماز 
  • But many a regret has come into my heart and soul from (my admiration for) the Faith and sincerity of Báyazíd.” 3390
  • لیک از ایمان و صدق بایزید  ** چند حسرت در دل و جانم رسید 
  • Tanquam illa femina quae, cum concubitum asini videret, dixit: “Eheu, quid est hic admissarius egregius? [Just like that woman who observed sexual intercourse with the ass, she said (to herself): “Oh, what is this incomparable stallion?]
  • هم‌چو آن زن کو جماع خر بدید  ** گفت آوه چیست این فحل فرید 
  • Si concubitus hoc est, hi asini (praemium) abstulerunt: cacant super vulvis nostris hi mariti.” [If sexual intercourse is (like) this, these asses have won (the prize): these husbands (just) defecate on our vulvas.”]
  • گر جماع اینست بردند این خران  ** بر کس ما می‌ریند این شوهران 
  • Báyazíd paid all that is due to (fulfilled every obligation of) the Faith: blessings be on such a peerless lion!
  • داد جمله داد ایمان بایزید  ** آفرینها بر چنین شیر فرید 
  • If a single drop of his Faith enter into the ocean, the ocean will be submerged in his drop,
  • قطره‌ای ز ایمانش در بحر ار رود  ** بحر اندر قطره‌اش غرقه شود 
  • As (when) a mote of fire (falls) amidst forests, the (whole) forest passes away in that mote; 3395
  • هم‌چو ز آتش ذره‌ای در بیشه‌ها  ** اندر آن ذره شود بیشه فنا 
  • (Or) as (when) a phantasy (appears) in the heart of a king or his army, (a phantasy which) destroyed his enemies in war.
  • چون خیالی در دل شه یا سپاه  ** کرد اندر جنگ خصمان را تباه 
  • A star (of Divine illumination) appeared in Mohammed, so that the substance of (the beliefs of) Magian and Jew passed away.
  • یک ستاره در محمد رخ نمود  ** تا فنا شد گوهر گبر و جهود 
  • He that received the Faith entered into security; the infidelities of the rest became (a matter on which there were) two opinions.
  • آنک ایمان یافت رفت اندر امان  ** کفرهای باقیان شد دو گمان 
  • At any rate, their first pure (entire) unbelief did not remain (with them): it (the star of Mohammed) planted (in them) either (formal acceptance of) Islam or a (great) dread (of it).
  • کفر صرف اولین باری نماند  ** یا مسلمانی و یا بیمی نشاند 
  • This (description of the Faith of Báyazíd) is a (mere) makeshift varnishing: these similes are not equivalent to the mote of (Divine light). 3400
  • این به حیله آب و روغن کردنیست  ** این مثلها کفو ذره‌ی نور نیست 
  • A mote is only a paltry bodily thing: a mote is not the indivisible Sun.
  • ذره نبود جز حقیری منجسم  ** ذره نبود شارق لا ینقسم 
  • Know that (my) calling it (the Sun) a mote has a purpose hidden (from thee, for) thou art not familiar with the Sea: at present thou art (but) the foam.
  • گفتن ذره مرادی دان خفی  ** محرم دریا نه‌ای این دم کفی 
  • If the luminous sun of the Shaykh's Faith should display itself from the Orient of the Shaykh's spirit,
  • آفتاب نیر ایمان شیخ  ** گر نماید رخ ز شرق جان شیخ 
  • All below, down to the moist clay (beneath the earth's crust), would gain (abundant) treasure, and all above would gain a verdant Paradise.
  • جمله پستی گنج گیرد تا ثری  ** جمله بالا خلد گیرد اخضری 
  • He hath a spirit of resplendent light, he hath a body of despicable earth. 3405
  • او یکی جان دارد از نور منیر  ** او یکی تن دارد از خاک حقیر 
  • Oh, I wonder whether he is this or that. Tell (me), uncle, for I am left (helpless) in this difficulty.
  • ای عجب اینست او یا آن بگو  ** که بماندم اندرین مشکل عمو