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.”

گفت سلطان بلک آنچ از نفس زاد ** ریع تقصیرست و دخل اجتهاد

“Nay,” said the Sultan, “that which proceeds from one's self is the product of (one's own) remissness and the income derived from (one's own) labour.

ورنه آدم کی بگفتی با خدا ** ربنا انا ظلمنا نفسنا

Otherwise, how should Adam have said unto God, ‘O our Lord, verily we have wronged ourselves’?

خود بگفتی کین گناه از نفس بود ** چون قضا این بود حزم ما چه سود 405

Surely he would have said, ‘This sin was from Fate: since it was destiny, what does our precaution avail?’

هم‌چو ابلیسی که گفت اغویتنی ** تو شکستی جام و ما را می‌زنی

Like Iblís, who said, ‘Thou hast led me astray: Thou hast broken the cup and art beating me.’”