دم نمی‌گردد سخن بی‌لطف و قهر ** بر گروهی شهد و بر قومیست زهر
The breath does not become speech without (assuming the quality of) gentleness or harshness: it is honey for one set of people and poison for another class.
مروحه جنبان پی انعام کس ** وز برای قهر هر پشه و مگس
The fan is moving for the benefit of the (favoured) person, and for the subjugation of every fly and gnat.
مروحه‌ی تقدیر ربانی چرا ** پر نباشد ز امتحان و ابتلا
Why (then) should not the fan of Divine fore-ordainment be fraught with trial and probation (by means of good and evil)?
چونک جزو باد دم یا مروحه ** نیست الا مفسده یا مصلحه
Inasmuch as the part, namely, the wind of the breath or the fan, is naught but a cause of injury or advantage,
این شمال و این صبا و این دبور ** کی بود از لطف و از انعام دور140
How should this north-wind and this east-wind and this west- wind be remote from (showing) favour and conferring bounty?
یک کف گندم ز انباری ببین ** فهم کن کان جمله باشد همچنین
Look at a handful of wheat froth a granary, and apprehend that the whole of it will be just like this (handful).
کل باد از برج باد آسمان ** کی جهد بی مروحه‌ی آن بادران
How should the whole of the wind rush forth from the mansion of the wind in Heaven without (being impelled by) the fan of that Driver of the wind?
بر سر خرمن به وقت انتقاد ** نه که فلاحان ز حق جویند باد
Is it not the fact that at winnowing-time the labourers on the threshing-floor beseech God for wind,
تا جدا گردد ز گندم کاهها ** تا به انباری رود یا چاهها
In order that the straws may be separated from the wheat, so that it may go into a granary or pits?
چون بماند دیر آن باد وزان ** جمله را بینی به حق لابه‌کنان145
When the blowing wind is long delayed, you may see them all making humble entreaty to God.