آن هلال از نقص در باطن بریست ** آن به ظاهر نقص تدریج آوریست

The new-moon is inwardly free from imperfection: its apparent imperfection is (due to its) increasing gradually.

درس گوید شب به شب تدریج را ** در تانی بر دهد تفریج را 1210

Night by night it gives a lesson in gradualness, and with deliberation it produces relief (for itself).

در تانی گوید ای عجول خام ** پایه‌پایه بر توان رفتن به بام

With deliberation it says, “O hasty fool, (only) step by step can one mount to the roof.”

دیگ را تدریج و استادانه جوش ** کار ناید قلیه‌ی دیوانه جوش

Let the cooking-pot boil gradually, as a skilful (cook) does: the stew boiled in a mad hurry is of no use.

حق نه قادر بود بر خلق فلک ** در یکی لحظه به کن بی‌هیچ شک

Was not God able to create heaven in one moment by (the word) “Be”? Without any doubt (He was).

پس چرا شش روز آن را درکشید ** کل یوم الف عام ای مستفید

Why, then, O seeker of instruction, did He extend (the time) for it to six days, every day (being as long as) a thousand years?

خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است 1215

Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King.

خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود

Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,

نه چو تو ای خام که اکنون تاختی ** طفلی و خود را تو شیخی ساختی

Not like you, O foolish one, who have rushed forward just now: you are a child, and you have made yourself out to be an Elder.

بر دویدی چون کدو فوق همه ** کو ترا پای جهاد و ملحمه

You have run up, like a gourd, to the top of all, (but) where is the (spiritual) warfare and combat to sustain you?