خاک را و نطفه را و مضغه را ** پیش چشم ما همی‌دارد خدا
God is ever keeping the clay and semen and piece of flesh (embryo) before our eyes,
کز کجا آوردمت ای بدنیت ** که از آن آید همی خفریقیت890
(As though) to say, “O man of evil intention, whence did I bring thee, that thou hast (such) a disgust at it?
تو بر آن عاشق بدی در دور آن ** منکر این فضل بودی آن زمان
Thou wert in love with that (state) in the period thereof: at that time thou wert denying this (present) grace (which I have bestowed on thee).”
این کرم چون دفع آن انکار تست ** که میان خاک می‌کردی نخست
Inasmuch as this (present) bounty is the (means of) rebutting the denial which thou didst make in the beginning (when thou wert) amidst the clay,
حجت انکار شد انشار تو ** از دوا بدتر شد این بیمار تو
Thy having been brought to life is the argument against denial (of the Resurrection); (but thou art still denying it): this sick (soul) of thine is made worse by the medicine.
خاک را تصویر این کار از کجا ** نطفه را خصمی و انکار از کجا
Whence should clay have the (power of) imagining this thing? Whence should semen conceive opposition and denial?
چون در آن دم بی‌دل و بی‌سر بدی ** فکرت و انکار را منکر بدی895
(Nevertheless) since at that moment thou wert devoid of heart and spirit, thou wert (implicitly) denying (the faculty of) reflection and (the possibility of) denial.
از جمادی چونک انکارت برست ** هم ازین انکار حشرت شد درست
Since thy (former) denial arose from the state of lifelessness (irrationality), so by this (present) denial (the certainty of) thy resurrection is established.
پس مثال تو چو آن حلقه‌زنیست ** کز درونش خواجه گوید خواجه نیست
Hence the (appropriate) parable of thee is (a case) like (that of) the person who knocks at the door (of a house), and the master replies to him from within, saying, “The master is not (here).”
حلقه‌زن زین نیست دریابد که هست ** پس ز حلقه بر ندارد هیچ دست
From this “is not” the person knocking perceives that he is (there), and consequently does not take his hand off the door- ring at all.
پس هم انکارت مبین می‌کند ** کز جماد او حشر صد فن می‌کند
Therefore the very fact of thy denial is making it clear that He (God) brings about manifold resurrections from lifeless matter.
چند صنعت رفت ای انکار تا ** آب و گل انکار زاد از هل اتی900
How much (Divine) artifice passed (was expended), O thou denial (incarnate), till the water and clay (of thy original nature) produced denial from (the state signified by the words) Hal atá!
آب وگل می‌گفت خود انکار نیست ** بانگ می‌زد بی‌خبر که اخبار نیست
The water and clay was really saying, “There is no denial” (was really making an affirmation): it was crying, ‘There is no affirmation” (was uttering a denial), unaware (of the fact that its denial was an implicit affirmation).
من بگویم شرح این از صد طریق ** لیک خاطر لغزد از گفت دقیق
I would expound this (topic) in a hundred ways, but the (reader’s) mind would stumble at the subtle discourse.
چاره کردن سلیمان علیه‌السلام در احضار تخت بلقیس از سبا
How Solomon, on whom be peace, devised a plan for bringing the throne of Bilqís from Sabá.
گفت عفریتی که تختش را به فن ** حاضر آرم تا تو زین مجلس شدن
A certain ‘Ifrít (demon) said, “By (my) art I will bring her throne here before thy departure from this council.”
گفت آصف من به اسم اعظمش ** حاضر آرم پیش تو در یک دمش
Ásaf said, “By means of the greatest Name (of God) I will bring it here into thy presence in a single moment.”
گرچه عفریت اوستاد سحر بود ** لیک آن از نفخ آصف رو نمود905
Though the ‘Ifrít was a master of magic, yet that (miracle) was displayed by the breath (spiritual power) of Ásaf.
حاضر آمد تخت بلقیس آن زمان ** لیک ز آصف نه از فن عفریتیان
The throne of Bilqís came into the presence instantly, but through Ásaf, not through the art of them that have the (malignant) nature of ‘Ifríts.
گفت حمدالله برین و صد چنین ** که بدیدستم ز رب العالمین
He (Solomon) said, “Praise to God for this and a hundred such (favours) which I have seen (received) from the Lord of created beings.”
پس نظر کرد آن سلیمان سوی تخت ** گفت آری گول‌گیری ای درخت
Then Solomon turned his eyes towards the throne. “Yes,” he said, “thou art one that catches fools, O tree!”
پیش چوب و پیش سنگ نقش کند ** ای بسا گولان که سرها می‌نهند
Oh, many are the fools that lay down their heads before wood and graven stone.
ساجد و مسجود از جان بی‌خبر ** دیده از جان جنبشی واندک اثر910
(Both) the worshipper and the object of worship are ignorant of the spirit; (but) he (the worshipper) has felt a movement and a slight effect of the spirit.
دیده در وقتی که شد حیران و دنگ ** که سخن گفت و اشارت کرد سنگ
He has felt, at the moment when he became rapt (in devotion) and bewildered, that the stone spoke and made signs.
نرد خدمت چون بنا موضع بباخت ** شیر سنگین را شقی شیری شناخت
When the wretched man bestowed his devotion in the wrong place and deemed the lion of stone to be a (real) lion,
از کرم شیر حقیقی کرد جود ** استخوانی سوی سگ انداخت زود
The real Lion, from kindness, showed munificence and at once threw a bone to the dog,