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  • عقل چون باران به امر آنجا بریخت ** عقل این سو خشم حق دید و گریخت
  • There, by (His) command the rain-like intelligence poured down; here, intelligence saw God's anger and took to flight.

  • ابر و خورشید و مه و نجم بلند ** جمله بر ترتیب آیند و روند
  • Clouds and sun and moon and lofty stars, all come and go according to arrangement.

  • هر یکی ناید مگر در وقت خویش ** که نه پس ماند ز هنگام و نه پیش
  • None comes but at its appointed hour, so that it neither lags behind the time nor (arrives) before.

  • چون نکردی فهم این را ز انبیا ** دانش آوردند در سنگ و عصا 2825
  • How hast not thou understood this from the prophets? They brought knowledge into stone and rod,

  • تا جمادات دگر را بی لباس ** چون عصا و سنگ داری از قیاس
  • That thou, (judging) by analogy, might’st undoubtingly deem the other lifeless things to be like rod and stone (in this respect).

  • طاعت سنگ و عصا ظاهر شود ** وز جمادات دگر مخبر شود
  • The obedience (to God) of stone and rod is made manifest and gives information concerning the other lifeless things,

  • که ز یزدان آگهیم و طایعیم ** ما همه نی اتفاقی ضایعیم
  • That (they say), “We are cognisant of God and obedient (to Him): we all are (bearing witness to His wisdom) not by chance and in vain.

  • هم‌چو آب نیل دانی وقت غرق ** کو میان هر دو امت کرد فرق
  • As (for example) the water of the Nile: thou knowest that at the time of drowning it made a distinction between the two peoples;

  • چون زمین دانیش دانا وقت خسف ** در حق قارون که قهرش کرد و نسف 2830
  • (And) as the earth: thou knowest it to be possessed of knowledge, at the time of (its) sinking, in regard to Qárún whom He subdued and swept away;

  • چون قمر که امر بشنید و شتافت ** پس دو نیمه گشت بر چرخ و شکافت
  • (And) as the moon, which heard the (Divine) command and hastened (to obey) and then became two halves in the sky and split;