قابل امر ویی قایل شوی ** وصل جویی بعد از آن واصل شوی‌‌

If you accept His command, you will become the spokesman (thereof); if you seek union (with Him), thereafter you will become united.

سعی شکر نعمتش قدرت بود ** جبر تو انکار آن نعمت بود

Freewill is the endeavour to thank (God) for His beneficence: your necessitarianism is the denial of that beneficence.

شکر قدرت قدرتت افزون کند ** جبر نعمت از کفت بیرون کند

Thanksgiving for the power (of acting freely) increases your power; necessitarianism takes the (Divine) gift (of freewill) out of your hand.

جبر تو خفتن بود در ره مخسب ** تا نبینی آن در و درگه مخسب‌‌ 940

Your necessitarianism is (like) sleeping on the road: do not sleep! Sleep not, until you see the gate and the threshold!

هان مخسب ای جبری بی‌‌اعتبار ** جز به زیر آن درخت میوه‌‌دار

Beware! do not sleep, O inconsiderate sluggard, save underneath that fruit-laden tree,

تا که شاخ افشان کند هر لحظه باد ** بر سر خفته بریزد نقل و زاد

So that every moment the wind may shake the boughs and shower upon the sleeper (spiritual) dessert and provision for the journey.

جبر و خفتن در میان ره زنان ** مرغ بی‌‌هنگام کی یابد امان‌‌

(How absurd) to be a necessitarian and sleep amidst highwaymen! How should the untimely bird receive quarter?

ور اشارتهاش را بینی زنی ** مرد پنداری و چون بینی زنی‌‌

And if you turn up your nose at His signs, you deem (yourself) a man, but when you consider (more deeply), you are (only) a woman.

این قدر عقلی که داری گم شود ** سر که عقل از وی بپرد دم شود 945

This measure of understanding which you possess is lost: a head from which the understanding flies away,

ز آن که بی‌‌شکری بود شوم و شنار ** می‌‌برد بی‌‌شکر را در قعر نار

Because ingratitude is wickedness and disgrace and brings the ingrate to the bottom of Hell-fire.