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1539-1563

  • اینک موسی را عصا ثعبان شود  ** هم‌چو خورشیدی کفش رخشان شود 
  • The change of Moses' rod into a serpent and the shining of his hand like a (resplendent) sun,

  • صد هزاران معجزات انبیا  ** که آن نگنجد در ضمیر و عقل ما  1540
  • And a hundred thousand miracles of the prophets which are not comprehended by our mind and understanding—

  • نیست از اسباب تصریف خداست  ** نیستها را قابلیت از کجاست 
  • (These) are not derived from secondary causes but are (under) the (direct) control of God: how can receptivity belong to non-existent things?

  • قابلی گر شرط فعل حق بدی  ** هیچ معدومی به هستی نامدی 
  • If receptivity were a necessary condition for God's action, no non-existent thing would come into existence.

  • سنتی بنهاد و اسباب و طرق  ** طالبان را زیر این ازرق تتق 
  • He (God) hath established a (customary) law and causes and means for the sake of those who seek (Him) under this blue veil (of heaven).

  • بیشتر احوال بر سنت رود  ** گاه قدرت خارق سنت شود 
  • Most happenings come to pass according to the (customary) law, (but) sometimes the (Divine) Power breaks the law.

  • سنت و عادت نهاده با مزه  ** باز کرده خرق عادت معجزه  1545
  • He hath established a goodly law and custom; then He hath made the (evidentiary) miracle a breach of the custom.

  • بی‌سبب گر عز به ما موصول نیست  ** قدرت از عزل سبب معزول نیست 
  • If honour does not reach us without a (mediating) cause, (yet) the (Divine) Power is not remote from the removal of the cause.

  • ای گرفتار سبب بیرون مپر  ** لیک عزل آن مسبب ظن مبر 
  • O thou who art caught by the cause, do not fly outside (of causation); but (at the same time) do not suppose the removal of the Causer.

  • هر چه خواهد آن مسبب آورد  ** قدرت مطلق سببها بر درد 
  • The Causer brings (into existence) whatsoever He will: the Absolute Power tears up (destroys) the causes;

  • لیک اغلب بر سبب راند نفاذ  ** تا بداند طالبی جستن مراد 
  • But, for the most part, He lets the execution (of His will) follow the course of causation, in order that a seeker may be able to pursue the object of his desire.

  • چون سبب نبود چه ره جوید مرید  ** پس سبب در راه می‌باید بدید  1550
  • When there is no cause, what way should the seeker pursue? Therefore he must have a visible cause in the way (that he is pursuing).

  • این سببها بر نظرها پرده‌هاست  ** که نه هر دیدار صنعش را سزاست 
  • These causes are veils on the eyes, for not every eye is worthy of (contemplating) His work.

  • دیده‌ای باید سبب سوراخ کن  ** تا حجب را بر کند از بیخ و بن 
  • An eye that can penetrate the cause is needed to extirpate (these) veils from root and bottom,

  • تا مسبب بیند اندر لامکان  ** هرزه داند جهد و اکساب و دکان 
  • So that it may behold the Causer in (the world of) non-spatiality and regard exertion and earnings and shops as (mere) nonsense.

  • از مسبب می‌رسد هر خیر و شر  ** نیست اسباب و وسایط ای پدر 
  • Everything good or evil comes from the Causer: causes and means, O father, are naught

  • جز خیالی منعقد بر شاه‌راه  ** تا بماند دور غفلت چند گاه  1555
  • But a phantom that has materialised on the King's highway in order that the period of heedlessness (the reign of ignorance) may endure for some (little) time.

  • در ابتدای خلقت جسم آدم علیه‌السلام کی جبرئیل علیه‌السلام را اشارت کرد کی برو از زمین مشتی خاک برگیر و به روایتی از هر نواحی مشت مشت بر گیر 
  • On the beginning of the creation of the body of Adam, on whom be peace, when He (God) commanded Gabriel, on whom be peace, saying, “Go, take a handful of clay from this Earth,” or according to another relation, “Take a handful from every region.”

  • چونک صانع خواست ایجاد بشر  ** از برای ابتلای خیر و شر 
  • When the Maker willed to bring Man into existence for the purpose of probation with good and evil,

  • جبرئیل صدق را فرمود رو  ** مشت خاکی از زمین بستان گرو 
  • He commanded Gabriel the true, saying, “Go, take a handful of clay from the Earth as a pledge.”

  • او میان بست و بیامد تا زمین  ** تا گزارد امر رب‌العالمین 
  • He girt his loins and came to the Earth, that he might execute the command of the Lord of created beings.

  • دست سوی خاک برد آن متمر  ** خاک خود را در کشید و شد حذر 
  • That obedient one moved his hand towards the Earth: the Earth withdrew herself and was afraid.

  • پس زبان بگشاد خاک و لابه کرد  ** کز برای حرمت خلاق فرد  1560
  • Then the Earth loosed her tongue and made supplication, saying, “For the sake of the reverence due to the unique Creator,

  • ترک من گو و برو جانم ببخش  ** رو بتاب از من عنان خنگ رخش 
  • Take leave of me and go! Spare my life! Go, turn aside from me the reins of thy white steed!

  • در کشاکشهای تکلیف و خطر  ** بهر لله هل مرا اندر مبر 
  • For God's sake, leave me and do not plunge me into the troubles of (moral) obligation and danger.

  • بهر آن لطفی که حقت بر گزید  ** کرد بر تو علم لوح کل پدید 
  • (I beseech thee) for the sake of the favour by which God chose thee out and revealed to thee the knowledge (written) in the Universal Tablet,