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2900-2909

  • قوم گفتند ای نصوحان بس بود ** اینچ گفتید ار درین ده کس بود 2900
  • The people (of Sabá) said, “O admonishers, what ye have said is enough, if there be any one in this village.

  • قفل بر دلهای ما بنهاد حق ** کس نداند برد بر خالق سبق
  • God hath set a lock upon our hearts; none can prevail against the Creator.

  • نقش ما این کرد آن تصویرگر ** این نخواهد شد بگفت و گو دگر
  • That Artist made the picture of us to be this: this will not be altered by talking.

  • سنگ را صد سال گویی لعل شو ** کهنه را صد سال گویی باش نو
  • A hundred years you may tell the pebble to become a ruby, a hundred years you may tell the old to become new;

  • خاک را گویی صفات آب گیر ** آب را گویی عسل شو یا که شیر
  • You may tell earth to assume the qualities of water, you may tell water to become honey or milk—

  • خالق افلاک او و افلاکیان ** خالق آب و تراب و خاکیان 2905
  • (’Tis all in vain): He is the Creator of the heavens and the heavenly ones, the Creator of water and earth and earthly beings.

  • آسمان را داد دوران و صفا ** آب و گل را تیره رویی و نما
  • To heaven He gave its circling motion and its purity; to (the mixed) water and earth its dark appearance and its (power of) growth.

  • کی تواند آسمان دردی گزید ** کی تواند آب و گل صفوت خرید
  • How can heaven choose turbidity? How can (the mixed) earth and water buy purity?

  • قسمتی کردست هر یک را رهی ** کی کهی گردد بجهدی چون کهی
  • To every one He hath allotted a certain course: how should a mountain by any effort become as a straw?”

  • جواب انبیا علیهم السلام مر جبریان را
  • The answer of the prophets, on whom be peace, to the Necessitarians.

  • انبیا گفتند کاری آفرید ** وصفهایی که نتان زان سر کشید
  • The prophets said, “Yes: He hath created some qualities from which it is impossible to withdraw one's self,