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  • نه که ما را دست فضلش کاشته ست ** از عدم ما را نه او برداشته ست‏
  • Was it not the hand of His bounty that sowed me? Was it not He that raised me up from non-existence?

  • ای بسا کز وی نوازش دیده‏ایم ** در گلستان رضا گردیده‏ایم‏ 2625
  • Oh, many is the time I have received kindness from Him and walked in the rose-garden of (His) approval.

  • بر سر ما دست رحمت می‏نهاد ** چشمه‏های لطف از ما می‏گشاد
  • He would lay the hand of mercy on my head, He would open (let flow) from me the fountains of grace.

  • وقت طفلی‏ام که بودم شیر جو ** گاهوارم را که جنبانید او
  • Who found milk for me in the season of my infancy? Who rocked my cradle? He.

  • از که خوردم شیر غیر شیر او ** کی مرا پرورد جز تدبیر او
  • From whom did I drink milk other than His milk? Who nourished me except His providence?

  • خوی کان با شیر رفت اندر وجود ** کی توان آن را ز مردم واگشود
  • The disposition which has entered with the milk into (their) being—how can it be discharged (expelled) from folk?

  • گر عتابی کرد دریای کرم ** بسته کی گردند درهای کرم‏ 2630
  • If the Sea of Bounty has given (me) a rebuke, (yet) how have the doors of Bounty been shut?

  • اصل نقدش داد و لطف و بخشش است ** قهر بر وی چون غباری از غش است‏
  • Giving and grace and favour are the fundamental substance of His coin: wrath is (only) as a speck of alloy on it.

  • از برای لطف عالم را بساخت ** ذره‏ها را آفتاب او نواخت‏
  • He made the world for kindness' sake: His sun caressed the motes (in its beams).

  • فرقت از قهرش اگر آبستن است ** بهر قدر وصل او دانستن است‏
  • If separation (from Him) is big with His wrath, ’tis for the sake of knowing the worth of union with Him,