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  • آن دروگر حاکم چوبی بود  ** وآن مصور حاکم خوبی بود 
  • The carpenter has authority over a piece of wood, and the artist has authority over (the portrait of) a beauty;

  • هست آهنگر بر آهن قیمی  ** هست بنا هم بر آلت حاکمی 
  • The ironsmith is a superintendent of iron; the builder also is a ruler over his tools.

  • نادر این باشد که چندین اختیار  ** ساجد اندر اختیارش بنده‌وار  3095
  • This (matter) is extraordinary; for all this (human) free-will is bowing low, like a slave, in (homage to) His (God's) free-will.

  • قدرت تو بر جمادات از نبرد  ** کی جمادی را از آنها نفی کرد 
  • When did the power forcibly exercised by you over inanimate objects deprive them of (their) inanimateness?

  • قدرتش بر اختیارات آنچنان  ** نفی نکند اختیاری را از آن 
  • Similarly, His (God's) power over (our) acts of free-will does not deprive any act of free-will of that (quality).

  • خواستش می‌گوی بر وجه کمال  ** که نباشد نسبت جبر و ضلال 
  • Declare that His (God's) will is (exercised) in a complete manner, (but) without there being (involved in it) the attribution (to Him) of compulsion (jabr) and (responsibility for) error (disobedience to His commands).

  • چونک گفتی کفر من خواست ویست  ** خواست خود را نیز هم می‌دان که هست 
  • Since you have said, ‘My unbelief is willed by Him,’ know that it is also willed by yourself;

  • زانک بی‌خواه تو خود کفر تو نیست  ** کفر بی‌خواهش تناقض گفتنیست  3100
  • For without your will your unbelief does not exist at all: involuntary unbelief is a self-contradiction.

  • امر عاجز را قبیحست و ذمیم  ** خشم بتر خاصه از رب رحیم 
  • ’Tis abominable and blameworthy to lay a command on one incapable (of obeying it); and anger (on account of his disobedience) is worse, especially from the Merciful Lord.

  • گاو گر یوغی نگیرد می‌زنند  ** هیچ گاوی که نپرد شد نژند 
  • An ox is beaten if he refuse the yoke: is an ox (ever) reduced to misery because he will not fly?