ماند حیران گفت با میری دگر ** که برو وا پرس رخت آن نفر

He (the Amír) remained (silent) in perplexity. (Then) the King said to another Amír, “Go and inquire (what is) the merchandise of those people.”

باز آمد گفت از هر جنس هست ** اغلب آن کاسه‌های رازیست

He came back and said, “It is of every sort; the greater part consists of cups made in Rayy.”

گفت کی بیرون شدند از شهر ری ** ماند حیران آن امیر سست پی 395

He (the King) asked, “When did they set out from the city of Rayy?” The dull-witted Amír remained (silent) in perplexity.

هم‌چنین تا سی امیر و بیشتر ** سست‌رای و ناقص اندر کر و فر

So (it went on) till thirty Amírs and more (had been tested): (all were) feeble in judgement and deficient in (mental) power.

گفت امیران را که من روزی جدا ** امتحان کردم ایاز خویش را

(Then) he said to the Amírs, “One day I put my Ayáz to the test separately,

که بپرس از کاروان تا از کجاست ** او برفت این جمله وا پرسید راست

Saying, ‘Inquire of the caravan (and find out) whence it comes.’ He went and asked all these questions (just) right.

بی‌وصیت بی‌اشارت یک به یک ** حالشان دریافت بی ریبی و شک

Without instructions, without a hint (from me), he apprehended everything concerning them, point by point, without any uncertainty or doubt.”

هر چه زین سی میر اندر سی مقام ** کشف شد زو آن به یکدم شد تمام 400

Everything that was discovered by these thirty Amírs in thirty stages was completed by him (Ayáz) in one moment.

مدافعه‌ی امرا آن حجت را به شبهه‌ی جبریانه و جواب دادن شاه ایشان را

How the Amírs endeavoured to rebut that argument by the Necessitarian error and how the King answered them.

پس بگفتند آن امیران کین فنیست ** از عنایتهاش کار جهد نیست

Then the Amírs said, “This is a branch (species) of His (God's) providential favours: it has nothing to do with (personal) effort.

قسمت حقست مه را روی نغز ** داده‌ی بختست گل را بوی نغز

The fair face of the moon is bestowed on it by God, the sweet scent of the rose is the gift of Fortune.”