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  • شکر جان نعمت و نعمت چو پوست ** ز آنک شکر آرد ترا تا کوی دوست
  • Thanksgiving is the soul of the bounty, and the bounty is as the husk, because thanksgiving brings you to the abode of the Beloved.

  • نعمت آرد غفلت و شکر انتباه ** صید نعمت کن بدام شکر شاه
  • Bounty produces heedlessness, and thanksgiving alertness: hunt after bounty with the snare of thanksgiving to the King.

  • نعمت شکرت کند پرچشم و میر ** تا کنی صد نعمت ایثار فقیر
  • The bounty of thanksgiving will make you contented and princely, so that you will bestow a hundred bounties on the poor.

  • سیر نوشی از طعام و نقل حق ** تا رود از تو شکم‌خواری و دق
  • You will eat your fill of the viands and dessert of God, so that hunger and begging will depart from you.

  • منع کردن انبیا را از نصیحت کردن و حجت آوردن جبریانه
  • How the unbelievers stopped the prophets, on whom be peace, from giving admonition and brought forward Necessitarian arguments.

  • قوم گفتند ای نصوحان بس بود ** اینچ گفتید ار درین ده کس بود 2900
  • The people (of Sabá) said, “O admonishers, what ye have said is enough, if there be any one in this village.

  • قفل بر دلهای ما بنهاد حق ** کس نداند برد بر خالق سبق
  • God hath set a lock upon our hearts; none can prevail against the Creator.

  • نقش ما این کرد آن تصویرگر ** این نخواهد شد بگفت و گو دگر
  • That Artist made the picture of us to be this: this will not be altered by talking.

  • سنگ را صد سال گویی لعل شو ** کهنه را صد سال گویی باش نو
  • A hundred years you may tell the pebble to become a ruby, a hundred years you may tell the old to become new;

  • خاک را گویی صفات آب گیر ** آب را گویی عسل شو یا که شیر
  • You may tell earth to assume the qualities of water, you may tell water to become honey or milk—

  • خالق افلاک او و افلاکیان ** خالق آب و تراب و خاکیان 2905
  • (’Tis all in vain): He is the Creator of the heavens and the heavenly ones, the Creator of water and earth and earthly beings.

  • آسمان را داد دوران و صفا ** آب و گل را تیره رویی و نما
  • To heaven He gave its circling motion and its purity; to (the mixed) water and earth its dark appearance and its (power of) growth.

  • کی تواند آسمان دردی گزید ** کی تواند آب و گل صفوت خرید
  • How can heaven choose turbidity? How can (the mixed) earth and water buy purity?

  • قسمتی کردست هر یک را رهی ** کی کهی گردد بجهدی چون کهی
  • To every one He hath allotted a certain course: how should a mountain by any effort become as a straw?”

  • جواب انبیا علیهم السلام مر جبریان را
  • The answer of the prophets, on whom be peace, to the Necessitarians.

  • انبیا گفتند کاری آفرید ** وصفهایی که نتان زان سر کشید
  • The prophets said, “Yes: He hath created some qualities from which it is impossible to withdraw one's self,

  • و آفرید او وصفهای عارضی ** که کسی مبغوض می‌گردد رضی 2910
  • And He hath (also) created qualities (which are only) accidental, so that a hated person becomes acceptable.

  • سنگ را گویی که زر شو بیهده‌ست ** مس را گویی که زر شو راه هست
  • If you bid a stone become gold, ’tis futile; (but) if you bid copper become gold, the way (of transmuting it) exists.

  • ریگ را گویی که گل شو عاجزست ** خاک را گویی که گل شو جایزست
  • If you bid sand become clay, it is incapable (of doing so); (but) if you bid earth become clay, that is possible.

  • رنجها دادست کان را چاره نیست ** آن بمثل لنگی و فطس و عمیست
  • He hath given (ordained to us) maladies for which there is no remedy, such as lameness, flatness of the nose, and blindness;

  • رنجها دادست کان را چاره هست ** آن بمثل لقوه و درد سرست
  • He hath given maladies for which there is a remedy, such as facial paralysis and headache.

  • این دواها ساخت بهر ایتلاف ** نیست این درد و دواها از گزاف 2915
  • These medicines He hath made for the sake of (restoring) harmony: these maladies and medicines are not in vain.

  • بلک اغلب رنجها را چاره هست ** چون بجد جویی بیاید آن بدست
  • Nay, most maladies have a cure: when you seek in earnest, it will come to hand.”

  • مکرر کردن کافران حجتهای جبریانه را
  • How the infidels repeated the Necessitarian arguments.

  • قوم گفتند ای گروه این رنج ما ** نیست زان رنجی که بپذیرد دوا
  • The people said, “O company (of prophets), this malady of ours is not one of those that admit of cure.

  • سالها گفتید زین افسون و پند ** سخت‌تر می‌گشت زان هر لحظه بند
  • For years ye uttered spells and admonitions of this kind, and by them our bondage was made sorer every moment.

  • گر دوا را این مرض قابل بدی ** آخر از وی ذره‌ای زایل شدی
  • If this disease were susceptible of cure, some particle of it would at last have been removed.

  • سده چون شد آب ناید در جگر ** گر خورد دریا رود جایی دگر 2920
  • When hepatitis occurs, water does not enter the liver: if he (the patient) should drink up the (whole) sea, it (the water) would go somewhere else;