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  • ور بیامد باد و دستارت ربود  ** کی ترا با باد دل خشمی نمود 
  • And if the wind came and carried off your turban, when did your heart show any anger against the wind?

  • خشم در تو شد بیان اختیار  ** تا نگویی جبریانه اعتذار 
  • The anger within you is a clear demonstration of (the existence of) a power of choice (in Man), so that you must not excuse yourself after the fashion of Necessitarians.

  • گر شتربان اشتری را می‌زند  ** آن شتر قصد زننده می‌کند  3050
  • If a camel-driver goes on striking a camel, the camel will attack the striker.

  • خشم اشتر نیست با آن چوب او  ** پس ز مختاری شتر بردست بو 
  • The camel's anger is not (directed) against his stick: therefore the camel has got some notion of the power of choice (in Man).

  • هم‌چنین سگ گر برو سنگی زنی  ** بر تو آرد حمله گردد منثنی 
  • Similarly a dog, if you throw a stone at him, will rush at you and become contorted (with fury).

  • سنگ را گر گیرد از خشم توست  ** که تو دوری و ندارد بر تو دست 
  • If he seize the stone, ’tis because of his anger against you; for you are far off and he has no means of getting at you.

  • عقل حیوانی چو دانست اختیار  ** این مگو ای عقل انسان شرم دار 
  • Since the animal intelligence is conscious of the power of choice (in Man), do not thou, O human intelligence, hold this (Necessitarian doctrine). Be ashamed!

  • روشنست این لیکن از طمع سحور  ** آن خورنده چشم می‌بندد ز نور  3055
  • This (power of choice) is manifest, but in his desire for the meal taken before dawn that (greedy) eater shuts his eyes to the light.

  • چونک کلی میل او نان خوردنیست  ** رو به تاریکی نهد که روز نیست 
  • Since all his desire is for eating bread, he sets his face towards the darkness, saying, ‘It is not (yet) day.’

  • حرص چون خورشید را پنهان کند  ** چه عجب گر پشت بر برهان کند 
  • Inasmuch as greed causes the sun to be hidden (from him), what wonder if he turn his back on the convincing proof?

  • حکایت هم در بیان تقریر اختیار خلق و بیان آنک تقدیر و قضا سلب کننده‌ی اختیار نیست 
  • A Story illustrating and confirming the view that mankind have the power of choice, and showing that Pre-ordination and Predestination do not annul the power of choice.

  • گفت دزدی شحنه را کای پادشاه  ** آنچ کردم بود آن حکم اله 
  • A thief said to the magistrate, ‘O (my) king, that which I have done was decreed by God.’

  • گفت شحنه آنچ من هم می‌کنم  ** حکم حقست ای دو چشم روشنم 
  • The magistrate replied, ‘That which I am doing is also decreed by God, O light of my eyes.’

  • از دکانی گر کسی تربی برد  ** کین ز حکم ایزدست ای با خرد  3060
  • If any one take a radish from a (greengrocer's) shop, saying, ‘This is decreed by God, O man of understanding,’

  • بر سرش کوبی دو سه مشت ای کره  ** حکم حقست این که اینجا باز نه 
  • You (the greengrocer) will give him two or three blows on the head with your fist, (as though to say), ‘O detestable man, this (beating) is God's decree that you put it (the radish) back here.’

  • در یکی تره چو این عذر ای فضول  ** می‌نیاید پیش بقالی قبول 
  • Since this excuse, O trifler, is not accepted (even) by a greengrocer in the case of (stealing) a single vegetable,

  • چون بدین عذر اعتمادی می‌کنی  ** بر حوالی اژدهایی می‌تنی 
  • How are you placing (such) a reliance on this excuse and frequenting the neighbourhood of (such) a dragon?

  • از چنین عذر ای سلیم نانبیل  ** خون و مال و زن همه کردی سبیل 
  • By (making) an excuse like this, O ignoble simpleton, you sacrifice all—your life, your property, and your wife;

  • هر کسی پس سبلت تو بر کند  ** عذر آرد خویش را مضطر کند  3065
  • (For) afterwards every one will pluck your moustache and offer (the same) excuse and make himself out to be acting under compulsion.

  • حکم حق گر عذر می‌شاید ترا  ** پس بیاموز و بده فتوی مرا 
  • If ‘the decree of God’ seems to you a proper excuse, then instruct me and give me a canonical decision (on the point);

  • که مرا صد آرزو و شهوتست  ** دست من بسته ز بیم و هیبتست 
  • For I have a hundred desires and lusts, (but) my hand is tied by fear and awe (of God).

  • پس کرم کن عذر را تعلیم ده  ** برگشا از دست و پای من گره 
  • Do me a favour, then: teach me the excuse, untie the knots from my hands and feet!

  • اختیاری کرده‌ای تو پیشه‌ای  ** که اختیاری دارم و اندیشه‌ای 
  • You have chosen a handicraft, (thereby) saying (virtually), ‘I have a (certain) choice and a (certain) thought.’

  • ورنه چون بگزیده‌ای آن پیشه را  ** از میان پیشه‌ها ای کدخدا  3070
  • Otherwise, how have you chosen that (particular) handicraft out of all the rest, O master of the house?

  • چونک آید نوبت نفس و هوا  ** بیست مرده اختیار آید ترا 
  • When the hour comes for the flesh and the passions (to be indulged), there comes to you as great a power of choice as is possessed by twenty men;

  • چون برد یک حبه از تو یار سود  ** اختیار جنگ در جانت گشود 
  • When your friend deprives you of a farthing of profit, the power to pick a quarrel (with him) is (at once) developed in your soul;