بر که سنگین بخواندم شد شکاف ** خرقه را بدرید بر خود تا بناف
I pronounced (them) over the stony mountain: it was cloven and tore upon itself its mantle down to the navel.
برتن مرده بخواندم گشت حی ** بر سر لاشی بخواندم گشت شی
I pronounced (them) over the corpse: it came to life. I pronounced (them) over nonentity: it became entity.
خواندم آن را بر دل احمق بود ** صد هزاران بار و درمانی نشد
I pronounced them lovingly over the heart of the fool hundreds of thousands of times, and ’twas no cure (for his folly).
سنگ خارا گشت و زان خو بر نگشت ** ریگ شد کز وی نروید هیچ کشت
He became hard rock and changed not from that disposition; he became sand from which no produce grows.”
گفت حکمت چیست کنجا اسم حق ** سود کرد اینجا نبود آن را سبق2590
Said the other, “What is the reason that the Name of God availed there, (while) it had no advantage (good effect) here?
آن همان رنجست و این رنجی چرا ** او نشد این را و آن را شد دوا
That (physical infirmity) is disease too, and this (folly) is a disease: why did it (the Name of God) not become a cure for this, since it cured that?”
گفت رنج احمقی قهر خداست ** رنج و کوری نیست قهر آن ابتلاست
He (Jesus) said, “The disease of folly is (the result of) the wrath of God; (physical) disease and blindness are not (the result of Divine) wrath: they are (a means of) probation.”