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  • وین زمین مضطرب محتاج کوه ** گر نبودی نافریدی پر شکوه‏
  • And if this quaking earth had not needed mountains, He would not have created them sublime (as they are);

  • ور نبودی حاجت افلاک هم ** هفت گردون نافریدی از عدم‏
  • And if there had not been need of the heavenly spheres also, He would not have created from non-existence the Seven Skies.

  • آفتاب و ماه و این استارگان ** جز به حاجت کی پدید آمد عیان‏
  • The sun and moon and these stars—how did they come plain into view except through need?

  • پس کمند هستها حاجت بود ** قدر حاجت مرد را آلت دهد
  • Need, then is the noose for (all) things that exsist: He (God) gives to Man instruments in proportion to his need.

  • پس بیفزا حاجت ای محتاج زود ** تا بجوشد در کرم دریای جود 3280
  • Therefore quickly augment thy need, O needy one, in order that the Sea of Bounty may surge up in loving kindness.

  • این گدایان بر ره و هر مبتلا ** حاجت خود می‏نماید خلق را
  • These beggars (are) on the (public) road, and every sufferer (among them) is displaying his need to the people—

  • کوری و شلی و بیماری و درد ** تا از این حاجت بجنبد رحم مرد
  • Blindness and palsy and sickness and pain—that men's pity may be aroused by this need.

  • هیچ گوید نان دهید ای مردمان ** که مرا مال است و انبار است و خوان‏
  • Does he (any one) ever say, “Give bread, O people, for I have riches and granaries and trays (of viands)?”

  • چشم ننهاده‏ست حق در کور موش ** ز انکه حاجت نیست چشمش بهر نوش‏
  • God has not put eyes in the mole, because it does not need eyes for (getting) food.

  • می‏تواند زیست بی‏چشم و بصر ** فارغ است از چشم او در خاک تر 3285
  • It is able to live without eyes and sight: in the dank earth it is independent of eyes.