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لیک هم بعضی از این هر دو اثر ** شرح باید کرد یعنی نفع و ضر 1710
- But still, some of these two (diverse) effects must be explained—that is, the benefit and injury (which they involve)—
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تا شود معلوم آثار قضا ** شمه ای مر اهل سعد و نحس را
- In order that some little part of the effects of the (Divine) decree may be made known to the good-fortuned and the ill-starred.
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طالع آن کس که باشد مشتری ** شاد گردد از نشاط و سروری
- He whose ascendant (ruling planet) is Jupiter will be rejoiced by vivacity (of disposition) and eminence;
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و انکه را طالع زحل از هر شرور ** احتیاطش لازم آید در امور
- And it will be necessary for him whose ascendant is Saturn to take precautions against every (kind of) mischief in his affairs.
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گر بگویم آن زحل استاره را ** ز آتشش سوزد مر آن بیچاره را
- If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.
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اذکروا الله شاه ما دستور داد ** اندر آتش دید ما را نور داد 1715
- Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light.
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گفت اگر چه پاکم از ذکر شما ** نیست لایق مر مرا تصویرها
- He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,
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لیک هرگز مست تصویر و خیال ** در نیابد ذات ما را بیمثال
- Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”
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ذکر جسمانه خیال ناقص است ** وصف شاهانه از آنها خالص است
- Bodily commemoration is an imperfect fancy: the Kingly attributes are remote from those (forms of speech).
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شاه را گوید کسی جولاه نیست ** این چه مدح است این مگر آگاه نیست
- If any one say of a king, “He is not a weaver,” what praise is this? He (that person) is surely ignorant.
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انکار کردن موسی علیه السلام بر مناجات شبان
- How Moses, on whom be peace, took offence at the prayer of the shepherd.