هر کجا گوشی بد از وی چشم گشت ** هر کجا سنگی بد از وی یشم گشت‌‌

هر کجا گوشی بد از وی چشم گشت ** هر کجا سنگی بد از وی یشم گشت‌‌ 515

Wherever there was an ear, through Him it became an eye; wherever there was a stone, through Him it became a jasper.

کیمیا ساز است چه بود کیمیا ** معجزه بخش است چه بود سیمیا

He is an alchemist—what is alchemy (compared with His action)? He is a giver of miracles (to prophets)—what is magic (compared with these miracles)?

این ثنا گفتن ز من ترک ثناست ** کین دلیل هستی و هستی خطاست‌‌

This uttering of praise (to Him) is (really) the omission of praise on my part, for this (praise) is a proof of (my) being, and being is a sin.

پیش هست او بباید نیست بود ** چیست هستی پیش او کور و کبود

It behoves (us) to be not-being in the presence of His Being: in His presence what is (our) being? Blind and blue.

گر نبودی کور از او بگداختی ** گرمی خورشید را بشناختی‌‌

Were it not blind it would have been melted (consumed) by Him: it would have known the heat of (the Divine) sun;

ور نبودی او کبود از تعزیت ** کی فسردی همچو یخ این ناحیت‌‌ 520

And were it not blue from mourning, how would this region (of phenomenal existence) have (remained) frozen like ice?

بیان خسارت وزیر در این مکر

Setting forth how the vizier incurred perdition (by engaging) in this plot.

همچو شه نادان و غافل بد وزیر ** پنجه می‌‌زد با قدیم ناگزیر

The vizier was ignorant and heedless, like the (Jewish) king: he was wrestling with the eternal and inevitable,

با چنان قادر خدایی کز عدم ** صد چو عالم هست گرداند به دم‌‌

With a God so mighty that in a moment He causes a hundred worlds like ours to come into existence from non-existence:

صد چو عالم در نظر پیدا کند ** چون که چشمت را به خود بینا کند

A hundred worlds like ours He displays to the sight, when He makes your eye seeing by (the light of) Himself.

گر جهان پیشت بزرگ و بی‌‌بنی است ** پیش قدرت ذره ای می‌‌دان که نیست‌‌

If the world appears to you vast and bottomless, know that to Omnipotence it is not (so much as) an atom.