نه که تقدیر و قضای من بد آن ** چون به وقت عذر کردی آن نهان‌‌

Was it not My foreordainment and destiny? How didst thou conceal that at the time of excusing thyself?”

گفت ترسیدم ادب نگذاشتم ** گفت هم من پاس آنت داشتم‌‌

He (Adam) said, “I was afraid, (so) I did not let respect go (did not fail to observe due respect).” He (God) said, “I too have observed it towards thee.”

هر که آرد حرمت او حرمت برد ** هر که آرد قند لوزینه خورد

Whoever brings reverence gets reverence (in return): whoever brings sugar eats almond-cake.

طیبات از بهر که للطیبین ** یار را خوش کن برنجان و ببین‌‌ 1495

For whom are the good women? For the good men. Make thy friend pleased (with thee); offend (him) and see (what will happen).

یک مثال ای دل پی فرقی بیار ** تا بدانی جبر را از اختیار

O heart, bring (forward) a parable for the sake of (illustrating) a difference, that thou mayst know (what distinguishes) compulsion from freewill.

دست کان لرزان بود از ارتعاش ** و آن که دستی را تو لرزانی ز جاش‌‌

(Take the case of) a hand that is shaking from (morbid or involuntary) tremor and (the case of) a person whose hand you cause to shake (by knocking it away) from its place.

هر دو جنبش آفریده‌‌ی حق شناس ** لیک نتوان کرد این با آن قیاس‌‌

Know that both (these) movements are created by God, but it is impossible to compare the latter with the former.

ز آن پشیمانی که لرزانیدی‌‌اش ** مرتعش را کی پشیمان دیدی‌‌اش‌‌

You are sorry for having caused it (his hand) to shake: when did you see the man afflicted with (a morbid) tremor (to be) sorry?

بحث عقل است این چه عقل آن حیله‌‌گر ** تا ضعیفی ره برد آن جا مگر 1500

This is the intellectual quest— (but) what (sort of) intellect is that ingenious one? (The object of its quest is) perchance (by its means) a man of weak understanding may find his way to that place (gain some idea of the truth).

بحث عقلی گر در و مرجان بود ** آن دگر باشد که بحث جان بود

(Yet) the intellectual quest, though it be (fine as) pearls and coral, is other than the spiritual quest.