حاصل آن روضه چو باغ عارفان ** از سموم صرصر آمد در امان

“In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.

یک پلنگی طفلکان نو زاده بود ** گفتم او را شیر ده طاعت نمود

A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.

پس بدادش شیر و خدمتهاش کرد ** تا که بالغ گشت و زفت و شیرمرد

So she gave him milk and tended him till he grew up and became strong and valiant.

چون فطامش شد بگفتم با پری ** تا در آموزید نطق و داوری

When he was weaned, I told the peris (Jinn) to teach him how to discourse and deal justice.

پرورش دادم مر او را زان چمن ** کی بگفت اندر بگنجد فن من 4835

I gave him nourishment from that garden: how should (the description of) My artfulness be contained in words.

داده من ایوب را مهر پدر ** بهر مهمانی کرمان بی‌ضرر

I bestowed on Job a father's love in order that he might entertain the worms hospitably and do them no harm.

داده کرمان را برو مهر ولد ** بر پدر من اینت قدرت اینت ید

I bestowed on the worms love for him like that of children for their father. Look, here is (a token of My) Power, here is (a token of My) Hand!

مادران را داب من آموختم ** چون بود لطفی که من افروختم

I have taught mothers to care (for their children): how (infinite) must be the kindness that I have kindled!

صد عنایت کردم و صد رابطه ** تا ببیند لطف من بی‌واسطه

(Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,

تا نباشد از سبب در کش‌مکش ** تا بود هر استعانت از منش 4840

And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me,