بخش 216 - نظر کردن پیغامبر علیه السلام به اسیران و تبسم کردن و گفتن کی عَجِبْتُ مِنْ قَوْمٍ یُجَرّونَ إِلَی الجَنَّةِ بِالسَّلاسِلِ وَ الأَغْلالِ

The Prophet saw a troop of captives being taken along, and they were in loud lamentation.

That wary Lion saw them in chains: (he saw them) looking askance at him,

So that each (of them) was gnashing his teeth and chewing his lips in anger against the veracious Prophet;

(But) notwithstanding that anger, they dare not utter a word, because they are in the ten-maund chain of violence.

Their custodian is marching them along to the city: he is taking them by force from the land of the infidels.

(They say to each other), “He (the Prophet) will not accept any ransom or any gold: no intercession is coming from any prince.

He is called a mercy to the world, and he is cutting the throats and gullets of a (whole) world (of people).”

With a thousand (feelings of) disbelief they marched along, railing under their breath at the actions of the (spiritual) king,

(Saying), “We remedied (our former troubles), but in this case there is no remedy: truly this man's heart is not inferior (in hardness) to a rock.

We, thousands of men brave as lions, (fighting) with two or three feeble and half-dead naked fellows,

Are left helpless like this: is it on account of (our) wrong-doing or (unlucky) stars, or is it sorcery?

His fortune tore up our fortune; our throne was overturned by his throne.

If his cause became mighty (was made to prevail) by sorcery, we too practised sorcery: how did not it succeed?