How David, on whom be peace, resolved to summon the people to a certain plain, in older that he might disclose the mystery and make an end of all arguments.
شاعر: رومی
وزن: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
صنف: مثنوی
He said, “O friends, the time has come that his hidden secret should he displayed.
Arise, all (of you), that we may go forth, so that we may be come acquainted with that hidden secret.
In such and such a plain there is a huge tree, its boughs dense and numerous and curved.
Its tent and tent-pegs are very firm; from its roots the smell of blood is coining to me.
Murder has been done at the bottom of that goodly tree: this man of sinister fortune has killed his master.
The clemency, of God has concealed that (crime) till now, (but) at last.(it has come to ‘light) through the ingratitude of that scoundrel,
Who never a single day looked upon his master’s family, not (even) at Nawróz and (other) seasons of festival,
And never ‘searched after the destitute (children, to relieve their want) with a single morsel of food, or bethought him of the former obligations (which he had received),
(And so continued), till for the sake of a cow this accursed wretch is now felling his (master’s) son’ to the earth.
He, of himself, has lifted the veil from his crime; else God would have concealed his sin.”
In this cycle of woe the infidel and the profligate rend their veils of their own accord.
Wrong is covered (from sight) in the inmost thoughts of the soul: the wrong-doer exposes it to men,
Saying, “Behold me! I have horns! Behold the cow of Hell in full view!”
