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فقر ازین رو فخر آمد جاودان ** که به تقوی ماند دست نارسان
- For this reason poverty is everlasting glory, since the hand that cannot reach (to objects of desire) is left with fear of God (and nothing else).
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زان غنا و زان غنی مردود شد ** که ز قدرت صبرها بدرود شد
- Riches and the rich are spurned (by God) because acts of self-denial are relinquished by power.
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آدمی را عجز و فقر آمد امان ** از بلای نفس پر حرص و غمان
- Weakness and poverty are security for a man against the tribulation of the covetous and anxious (fleshly) soul.
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آن غم آمد ز آرزوهای فضول ** که بدان خو کرده است آن صید غول
- That anxiety arises from the wanton desires to which that (man who falls a) prey to the ghoul has become habituated.
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آرزوی گل بود گل‌خواره را ** گلشکر نگوارد آن بیچاره را 3285
- The eater of clay has a desire for clay: rose-flavoured sugar is indigestible for that wretched man.
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وحی آمدن از حق تعالی به موسی کی بیاموزش چیزی کی استدعا کند یا بعضی از آن
- How Revelation came from God most High to Moses that he should teach him the thing demanded by him, or part of it.
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گفت یزدان تو بده بایست او ** برگشا در اختیار آن دست او
- God said, “Do thou grant his need: let him have a free hand to choose (good or evil).”
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اختیار آمد عبادت را نمک ** ورنه می‌گردد بناخواه این فلک
- Choice (free-will) is the salt of devotion; otherwise (there would be no merit): this celestial sphere revolves involuntarily;
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گردش او را نه اجر و نه عقاب ** که اختیار آمد هنر وقت حساب
- (Hence) its revolution has neither reward nor punishment, for free-will is (accounted) a merit at the time of the Reckoning.
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جمله عالم خود مسبح آمدند ** نیست آن تسبیح جبری مزدمند
- All created beings indeed are glorifiers (of God), (but) that compulsory glorification is not wage-earning.
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تیغ در دستش نه از عجزش بکن ** تا که غازی گردد او یا راه‌زن 3290
- “Put a sword in his hand, pull him away from weakness (incapacity to choose), so that he may become (either) a holy warrior or a brigand,