How ‘Imrán lay with the mother of Moses and how the mother of Moses, on him be peace, became pregnant.
شاعر: رومی
وزن: فاعلاتن فاعلاتن فاعلن (رمل مسدس محذوف یا وزن مثنوی)
صنف: مثنوی
The King departed, and he (‘Imrán) slept at the door; at midnight his wife came to see him.
The wife fell upon him and kissed his lips: she roused him from his slumber in the night.
He awoke and saw that his wife was fair and that she rained kisses from her lips upon his.
‘Imrán said, “How didst thou come at this time?” She said, “From desire (of thee) and from the Divine ordinance.”
The man drew her lovingly into his arms; at that moment he did not rise to (did not engage in) battle with himself.
Concubuit cum ea et depositum (semen) tradidit; then he said, “O wife, this is not a small matter.
A steel struck upon the stone, and a fire was born—a fire that shall take vengeance on the King and his empire.
I am as the cloud, thou the earth, and Moses the plant. God is (as) the king on the chessboard, and we are checkmated, checkmated.
Deem (both) checkmate and victory (to proceed) from the King, O spouse: do not deem them to be from us, do not jeer at us.
That of which this Pharaoh is afraid came into being at the moment when I lay with thee.
