دست نه تا دست جنباند به دفع ** نطق نه تا دم زند در ضر و نفع
There is no power (to any one) that he should move a hand in defence; no (right of) speech, that he should utter a word concerning injury or benefit.
تو ز قرآن باز خوان تفسیر بیت ** گفت ایزد ما رميت إذ رمیت615
Recite from the Qur’án the interpretation of (i.e. a text which interprets) the (preceding) verse: God said, Thou didst not throw when thou threwest.
گر بپرانیم تیر آن نه ز ماست ** ما کمان و تیر اندازش خداست
If we let fly an arrow, that (action) is not from us: we are (only) the bow, and the shooter of the arrow is God.
این نه جبر این معنی جباری است ** ذکر جباری برای زاری است
This is not jabr (compulsion); it is the meaning of jabbárí (almightiness): the mention of almightiness is for the sake of (inspiring us with) humility.
زاری ما شد دلیل اضطرار ** خجلت ما شد دلیل اختیار
Our humility is evidence of necessity, (but) our sense of guilt is evidence of freewill.
گر نبودی اختیار این شرم چیست ** وین دریغ و خجلت و آزرم چیست
If there were not freewill, what is this shame? And what is this sorrow and guilty confusion and abashment?
زجر استادان و شاگردان چراست ** خاطر از تدبیرها گردان چراست620
Why is there chiding between pupils and masters? Why is the mind changing (so as to depart) from plans (already formed)?
ور تو گویی غافل است از جبر او ** ماه حق پنهان کند در ابر رو
And if you say that he (the assertor of free-will) takes no heed of the (Divine) compulsion, (and that) God's moon (majesty) hides its face (from him) in the cloud (of his own blindness),
هست این را خوش جواب ار بشنوی ** بگذری از کفر و در دین بگروی
There is a good answer to this; if you hearken, you will relinquish unbelief and incline towards the (true) religion.
حسرت و زاری گه بیماری است ** وقت بیماری همه بیداری است
Remorse and humility occur at the time of illness: the time of illness is wholly wakefulness (of conscience).