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  • تا جمادات دگر را بی لباس ** چون عصا و سنگ داری از قیاس
  • That thou, (judging) by analogy, might’st undoubtingly deem the other lifeless things to be like rod and stone (in this respect).

  • طاعت سنگ و عصا ظاهر شود ** وز جمادات دگر مخبر شود
  • The obedience (to God) of stone and rod is made manifest and gives information concerning the other lifeless things,

  • که ز یزدان آگهیم و طایعیم ** ما همه نی اتفاقی ضایعیم
  • That (they say), “We are cognisant of God and obedient (to Him): we all are (bearing witness to His wisdom) not by chance and in vain.

  • هم‌چو آب نیل دانی وقت غرق ** کو میان هر دو امت کرد فرق
  • As (for example) the water of the Nile: thou knowest that at the time of drowning it made a distinction between the two peoples;

  • چون زمین دانیش دانا وقت خسف ** در حق قارون که قهرش کرد و نسف 2830
  • (And) as the earth: thou knowest it to be possessed of knowledge, at the time of (its) sinking, in regard to Qárún whom He subdued and swept away;

  • چون قمر که امر بشنید و شتافت ** پس دو نیمه گشت بر چرخ و شکافت
  • (And) as the moon, which heard the (Divine) command and hastened (to obey) and then became two halves in the sky and split;

  • چون درخت و سنگ کاندر هر مقام ** مصطفی را کرده ظاهرالسلام
  • (And) as the trees and stones which everywhere overtly made the salaam to Mustafá (Mohammed).

  • جواب دهری کی منکر الوهیت است و عالم را قدیم می‌گوید
  • Reply to the materialist who disbelieves in the Deity and says that the world is eternal.

  • دی یکی می‌گفت عالم حادثست ** فانیست این چرخ و حقش وارثست
  • Yesterday some one was saying, “The world is originated in time: this heaven is passing away, and God is its inheritor.”

  • فلسفیی گفت چون دانی حدوث ** حادثی ابر چون داند غیوث
  • A philosopher said, “How do you know (its) temporal origin? How should the rain know the temporality of the cloud?

  • ذره‌ای خود نیستی از انقلاب ** تو چه می‌دانی حدوث آفتاب 2835
  • You are not even a mote of the (celestial) revolution: how should you know the temporality of the sun?

  • کرمکی کاندر حدث باشد دفین ** کی بداند آخر و بدو زمین
  • The little worm that is buried in filth—how should it know the end and beginning of the earth?

  • این به تقلید از پدر بشنیده‌ای ** از حماقت اندرین پیچیده‌ای
  • You have heard this by rote from your father: through foolishness you have become involved in this (belief).

  • چیست برهان بر حدوث این بگو ** ورنه خامش کن فزون گویی مجو
  • What is the demonstrative argument for its temporality? Tell (me) or else keep silence and do not seek (indulge in) excessive talk.”

  • گفت دیدم اندرین بحث عمیق ** بحث می‌کردند روزی دو فریق
  • He said, “One day I saw two parties searching in this deep sea,

  • در جدال و در خصام و در ستوه ** گشت هنگامه بر آن دو کس گروه 2840
  • (Engaged) in disputation and controversy and desperate battle: a crowd gathered round those two persons.

  • من به سوی جمع هنگامه شدم ** اطلاع از حال ایشان بستدم
  • I went towards the crowded multitude and took notice of their (the disputants') affair.

  • آن یکی می‌گفت گردون فانیست ** بی‌گمانی این بنا را بانیست
  • One was saying, ‘The sky will pass away: without any doubt, this edifice hath a builder.’

  • وان دگر گفت این قدیم و بی کیست ** نیستش بانی و یا بانی ویست
  • The other said, ‘It is eternal and timeless: it hath no builder, or else it is (itself) the builder.’

  • گفت منکر گشته‌ای خلاق را ** روز و شب آرنده و رزاق را
  • He (his adversary) said, ‘You have denied the Creator, the Producer of day and night and the Giver of sustenance.’

  • گفت بی برهان نخواهم من شنید ** آنچ گولی آن به تقلیدی گزید 2845
  • He (the philosopher) said, ‘Without clear evidence, I will not listen to that which an ignoramus has accepted by rote.

  • هین بیاور حجت و برهان که من ** نشنوم بی حجت این را در زمن
  • Come, bring the proof and evidence, for never in the world will I hearken to this without proof.’

  • گفت حجت در درون جانمست ** در درون جان نهان برهانمست
  • ‘The proof,’ he replied, ‘is within my soul: my evidence is hidden within my soul.

  • تو نمی‌بینی هلال از ضعف چشم ** من همی بینم مکن بر من تو خشم
  • You, from weakness of eye, are not seeing the new moon: (if) I am seeing it, do not you be angry with me.’

  • گفت و گو بسیار گشت و خلق گیج ** در سر و پایان این چرخ پسیج
  • There was much debate, and the people became perplexed as to the beginning and end of this well-ordered celestial sphere.

  • گفت یارا در درونم حجتیست ** بر حدوث آسمانم آیتیست 2850
  • He (the pious man) said, ‘Friend, within me is a (decisive) proof: I have a (manifest) sign indicating the temporal origin of the sky.