آن که پست مثال سنگ لاخ ** موش را شاید نه ما را در مناخ
That low mountain, resembling stony ground, is suitable for a mouse, not for us, as a resting-place.
من بگویم او نگردد یار من ** بی صدا ماند دم گفتار من
(When) I speak, it does not join with me: the breath of my speech remains without (any) echo.
با زمین آن به که هموارش کنی ** نیست همدم با قدم یارش کنی
’Tis better that thou level it with the earth; it is not in accord with thy breath (voice): thou shouldst join it with thy foot.”
گفت ای نوح ار تو خواهی جمله را ** حشر گردانم بر آرم از ثری1355
He (God) said, “O Noah, if thou desire, I will assemble them all and raise them from (their graves in) the earth.
بهر کنعانی دل تو نشکنم ** لیکت از احوال آگه می‌کنم
I will not break thy heart for the sake of a Canaan, but I am acquainting (thee) with (their real) states.”
گفت نه نه راضیم که تو مرا ** هم کنی غرقه اگر باید ترا
He (Noah) said, “Nay, nay, I am content that Thou shouldst drown me too, if it behove Thee (to do so).
هر زمانم غرقه می‌کن من خوشم ** حکم تو جانست چون جان می‌کشم
Keep drowning me every instant, I am pleased: Thy ordinance is my (very) soul, I bear it (with me) as my soul.
ننگرم کس را وگر هم بنگرم ** او بهانه باشد و تو منظرم
I do not look at any one (but Thee), and even if I do look at (any one), he is (only) a pretext, and Thou art the (real) object of my regard.
عاشق صنع توم در شکر و صبر ** عاشق مصنوع کی باشم چو گبر1360
I am in love with Thy making (both) in (the hour of) thanksgiving and (in the hour of) patience; how should I be in love, like the infidel, with that which Thou hast made?”
عاشق صنع خدا با فر بود ** عاشق مصنوع او کافر بود
He that loves God's making is glorious; he that loves what He hath made is an unbeliever.
توفیق میان این دو حدیث کی الرضا بالکفر کفر و حدیث دیگر من لم یرض بقضایی فلیطلب ربا سوای
Reconciliation of these two Traditions: “To be satisfied with infidelity is an act of infidelity,” and “If any one is not satisfied with My ordainment, let him seek a lord other than Me.”