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  • گر حکیمی نیست این ترتیب چیست ** ور حکیمی هست چون فعلش تهیست
  • If there is no Wise (Creator), what is (the reason of) this orderly arrangement (the cosmos)? And if there is a Wise (Creator), how is His action devoid (of meaning)?

  • کس نسازد نقش گرمابه و خضاب ** جز پی قصد صواب و ناصواب 3000
  • No one makes pictures and colouring in a bath-house except for (some) purpose (either) right or wrong.

  • مطالبه کردن موسی علیه‌السلام حضرت را کی خلقت خلقا اهلکتهم و جواب آمدن
  • How Moses, on whom be peace, besought the Lord, saying, "Thou didst create creatures and destroy them," and how the answer came.

  • گفت موسی ای خداوند حساب ** نقش کردی باز چون کردی خراب
  • Moses said, “O Lord of the Reckoning, Thou didst create the form: how didst Thou destroy it again?”

  • نر و ماده نقش کردی جان‌فزا ** وانگهان ویران کنی این را چرا
  • Thou hast made the form, male and female, that gives unto the spirit increase (of joy); and then Thou dost ruin it: why?”

  • گفت حق دانم که این پرسش ترا ** نیست از انکار و غفلت وز هوا
  • God said, “I know that this question of thine is not from disbelief and heedlessness and idle fancy;

  • ورنه تادیب و عتابت کردمی ** بهر این پرسش ترا آزردمی
  • Else I should have corrected and chastised thee: I should have afflicted thee on account of this question.

  • لیک می‌خواهی که در افعال ما ** باز جویی حکمت و سر بقا 3005
  • But (I know that) thou wishest to discover in My actions the wisdom and hidden meaning of (phenomenal) duration,

  • تا از آن واقف کنی مر عام را ** پخته گردانی بدین هر خام را
  • That thou mayst acquaint the vulgar therewith and by this means make every raw (ignorant) person to become cooked.

  • قاصدا سایل شدی در کاشفی ** بر عوام ار چه که تو زان واقفی
  • Thou hast become a questioner on purpose to disclose (this matter) to the vulgar, albeit thou art acquainted with it;

  • زآنک نیم علم آمد این سال ** هر برونی را نباشد آن مجال
  • For this questioning is the half of knowledge, and this ability (to ask questions) does not belong to every outsider.”

  • هم سال از علم خیزد هم جواب ** هم‌چنانک خار و گل از خاک و آب
  • Both question and answer arise from knowledge, just as the thorn and the rose from earth and water.

  • هم ضلال از علم خیزد هم هدی ** هم‌چنانک تلخ و شیرین از ندا 3010
  • Both perdition and salvation arise from knowledge, just as bitter and sweet (fruit) from moisture.

  • ز آشنایی خیزد این بغض و ولا ** وز غذای خویش بود سقم و قوی
  • This hatred and love arise from acquaintance, and from wholesome food (arise both) sickness and (bodily) powers.

  • مستفید اعجمی شد آن کلیم ** تا عجمیان را کند زین سر علیم
  • That Kalím (Moses) became (like) an ignorant enquirer in order that he might make the ignorant acquainted with this mystery.

  • ما هم از وی اعجمی سازیم خویش ** پاسخش آریم چون بیگانه پیش
  • Let us too feign ourselves to be ignorant thereof and elicit the answer to it (to the question) as (if we were) strangers (seeking information).

  • خرفروشان خصم یکدیگر شدند ** تا کلید قفل آن عقد آمدند
  • (Similarly) the ass-sellers became rivals to one another in order that they might open the way to the contract (of sale).

  • پس بفرمودش خدا ای ذولباب ** چون بپرسیدی بیا بشنو جواب 3015
  • Then God spake unto him, saying, “O thou who possessest the most excellent (understanding), since thou hast asked (the question), come, hear the answer.

  • موسیا تخمی بکار اندر زمین ** تا تو خود هم وا دهی انصاف این
  • O Moses, sow some seed in the earth, that thou thyself mayst render justice to this (question).”

  • چونک موسی کشت و شد کشتش تمام ** خوشه‌هااش یافت خوبی و نظام
  • When Moses had sown and the seed-corn was complete (in growth) and its ears had gained beauty and symmetry,

  • داس بگرفت و مر آن را می‌برید ** پس ندا از غیب در گوشش رسید
  • He took the sickle and was cutting that (crop); then a voice from the Unseen reached his ear,

  • که چرا کشتی کنی و پروری ** چون کمالی یافت آن را می‌بری
  • Crying, “Why dost thou sow and tend some seed-corn and (now) art cutting it when it has attained to perfection?”

  • گفت یا رب زان کنم ویران و پست ** که درینجا دانه هست و کاه هست 3020
  • He replied, “O Lord, I destroy and lay it low because straw is here and (also) grain.

  • دانه لایق نیست درانبار کاه ** کاه در انبار گندم هم تباه
  • The grain is not suitable (to be stored) in the straw-barn; the straw likewise is bad (for putting) in the corn-barn.

  • نیست حکمت این دو را آمیختن ** فرق واجب می‌کند در بیختن
  • ’Tis not wisdom to mix these twain: it (wisdom) makes necessary the separation (of them) in winnowing.”

  • گفت این دانش تو از کی یافتی ** که به دانش بیدری بر ساختی
  • He (God) said, “From whom didst thou gain this knowledge, so that by means of the knowledge thou didst construct a threshing-floor?”