بخش 86 - حکایت در تقریر این سخن کی چندین گاه گفت ذکر را آزمودیم مدتی صبر و خاموشی را بیازماییم

How long have you been cooking (things) sour and acid and (like the fruit of) the white tamarisk? For this one time make an experiment and cook sweets.

On waking at the Resurrection, there is put into the hands of a (wicked) man the scroll of his sins: (it will be) black,

Headed with black, as letters of mourning; the body and margin of the scroll completely filled with (his) sins—

The whole (of it) wickedness and sin from end to end, full of infidelity, like the land of war.

Such a foul and noxious scroll does not come into the right hand; it comes into the left hand.

Here also (in this world) regard your scroll (the record of your actions), (and consider) whether it fits the left hand or the right.

In the (bootmaker's) shop, can you know before trying (them) on that the left boot or shoe belongs to the left (foot)?

When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).

He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”

He bestows “rightness” on every one belonging to the “left” He bestows a (fresh) running water on the (salt) sea.

If you are “left,” be “right” (in perfect harmony) with His Lordship, that you may see His mercies prevail (over His wrath).

Do you think it allowable that this vile scroll (of yours) should pass from the left hand and come into the right?

How indeed should a scroll like this, which is full of iniquity and injury, be fit (to place) in the right hand?