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  • چون خلقناکم شنودی من تراب ** خاک باشی جست از تو رو متاب
  • Since thou hast heard “We created thee of dust,” (know that) He (God) hath required thee to be (humble and submissive as) dust: do not avert thy face (from Him).

  • بین که اندر خاک تخمی کاشتم ** کرد خاکی و منش افراشتم 455
  • (God saith), “Mark how I have sown a seed in the earth: thou art dust of the earth, and I have raised it aloft.

  • حمله‌ی دیگر تو خاکی پیشه گیر ** تا کنم بر جمله میرانت امیر
  • Do thou once more adopt the practice of earthiness (self-abasement), that I may make thee prince over all princes.”

  • آب از بالا به پستی در رود ** آنگه از پستی به بالا بر رود
  • Water goes from above to below; then from below it goes up above.

  • گندم از بالا بزیر خاک شد ** بعد از آن او خوشه و چالاک شد
  • The wheat went beneath the earth from above; afterwards it became ears of corn and sprang up quickly.

  • دانه‌ی هر میوه آمد در زمین ** بعد از آن سرها بر آورد از دفین
  • The seed of every fruit entered into the earth; afterwards it raised up heads (shoots) from the buried (root).

  • اصل نعمتها ز گردون تا بخاک ** زیر آمد شد غذای جان پاک 460
  • The source of (all) blessings descended from Heaven to the earth and became the nutriment of the pure (vital) spirit.

  • از تواضع چون ز گردون شد بزیر ** گشت جزو آدمی حی دلیر
  • Forasmuch as it came down from Heaven on account of humility, it became part of the living and valiant man.

  • پس صفات آدمی شد آن جماد ** بر فراز عرش پران گشت شاد
  • Hence that inanimate matter (rain and sunlight) was turned into human qualities and soared joyously above the empyrean,

  • کز جهان زنده ز اول آمدیم ** باز از پستی سوی بالا شدیم
  • Saying, “We came at first from the living world, and have (now) gone back from below to above.”

  • جمله اجزا در تحرک در سکون ** ناطقان که انا الیه راجعون
  • All particles (of phenomenal being), (whether) in movement (or) at rest, are speakers (and declare): “Verily, to Him we are returning.”

  • ذکر و تسبیحات اجزای نهان ** غلغلی افکند اندر آسمان 465
  • The praises and glorifications of the hidden particles have filled Heaven with an uproar.

  • چون قضا آهنگ نارنجات کرد ** روستایی شهریی را مات کرد
  • When the Decree (of God) set out to (use) enchantments, the countryman checkmated a townsman.

  • با هزاران حزم خواجه مات شد ** زان سفر در معرض آفات شد
  • Notwithstanding thousands of (good) resolutions, the Khwája was checkmated, and from that journey (which he undertook) he fell into the midst of calamities.

  • اعتمادش بر ثبات خویش بود ** گرچه که بد نیم سیلش در ربود
  • His reliance was upon his own firmness, (but) though he was (as) a mountain, a half-flood swept him away.

  • چون قضا بیرون کند از چرخ سر ** عاقلان گردند جمله کور و کر
  • When the Decree puts forth its head from Heaven, all the intelligent become blind and deaf;

  • ماهیان افتند از دریا برون ** دام گیرد مرغ پران را زبون 470
  • Fishes are cast out of the sea; the snare catches miserably the flying bird.

  • تا پری و دیو در شیشه شود ** بلک هاروتی به بابل در رود
  • Even genie and demon go into the bottle; nay, a Hárút goes into (the pit of) Babylon.

  • جز کسی کاندر قضا اندر گریخت ** خون او را هیچ تربیعی نریخت
  • (All are lost) except that one who has taken refuge with the Decree: his blood no (astrological) quadrature (ever) shed.

  • غیر آن که در گریزی در قضا ** هیچ حیله ندهدت از وی رها
  • Except that you take refuge with the Decree, no contrivance will give you release from it.

  • قصه‌ی اهل ضروان و حیلت کردن ایشان تا بی زحمت درویشان باغها را قطاف کنند
  • The Story of the people of Zarwán and how they contrived that they should pick the fruit in their orchards without being troubled by the poor.

  • قصه‌ی اصحاب ضروان خوانده‌ای ** پس چرا در حیله‌جویی مانده‌ای
  • You have read the story of the people of Zarwán: then why have you persisted in seeking expedients?

  • حیله می‌کردند کزدم‌نیش چند ** که برند از روزی درویش چند 475
  • Several (noxious) men who stung like scorpions were contriving that they might cut off part of the daily bread of some poor folk.

  • شب همه شب می‌سگالیدند مکر ** روی در رو کرده چندین عمرو و بکر
  • During the night, the whole night, they were devising a plot; many a ‘Amr and Bakr had put their faces together.

  • خفیه می‌گفتند سرها آن بدان ** تا نباید که خدا در یابد آن
  • Those wicked men were speaking their inmost thoughts in secret, lest God should discover it.

  • با گل انداینده اسگالید گل ** دست کاری می‌کند پنهان ز دل
  • Did the clay devise (evil) against the Plasterer? Is the hand doing any work that is hidden from the heart?