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  • گفت ای موسی بیاموزش که ما ** رد نکردیم از کرم هرگز دعا
  • He (God) said, “Teach him, O Moses, for We in our loving-kindness never have rejected (any one's) prayer.”

  • گفت یا رب او پشیمانی خورد ** دست خاید جامه‌ها را بر درد
  • He (Moses) said, “O Lord, he will feel repentance and gnaw his hands and rend his garments.

  • نیست قدرت هر کسی را سازوار ** عجز بهتر مایه‌ی پرهیزکار 3280
  • Power is not suitable to every one: weakness is the best stock-in-trade for the devout.”

  • فقر ازین رو فخر آمد جاودان ** که به تقوی ماند دست نارسان
  • For this reason poverty is everlasting glory, since the hand that cannot reach (to objects of desire) is left with fear of God (and nothing else).

  • زان غنا و زان غنی مردود شد ** که ز قدرت صبرها بدرود شد
  • Riches and the rich are spurned (by God) because acts of self-denial are relinquished by power.

  • آدمی را عجز و فقر آمد امان ** از بلای نفس پر حرص و غمان
  • Weakness and poverty are security for a man against the tribulation of the covetous and anxious (fleshly) soul.

  • آن غم آمد ز آرزوهای فضول ** که بدان خو کرده است آن صید غول
  • That anxiety arises from the wanton desires to which that (man who falls a) prey to the ghoul has become habituated.

  • آرزوی گل بود گل‌خواره را ** گلشکر نگوارد آن بیچاره را 3285
  • The eater of clay has a desire for clay: rose-flavoured sugar is indigestible for that wretched man.

  • وحی آمدن از حق تعالی به موسی کی بیاموزش چیزی کی استدعا کند یا بعضی از آن
  • How Revelation came from God most High to Moses that he should teach him the thing demanded by him, or part of it.

  • گفت یزدان تو بده بایست او ** برگشا در اختیار آن دست او
  • God said, “Do thou grant his need: let him have a free hand to choose (good or evil).”

  • اختیار آمد عبادت را نمک ** ورنه می‌گردد بناخواه این فلک
  • Choice (free-will) is the salt of devotion; otherwise (there would be no merit): this celestial sphere revolves involuntarily;