The sunbeams of Wisdom struck on soil and clay, so that the earth became receptive of the seed.
پرتو دانش زده بر آب و طین ** تا شده دانه پذیرنده‌‌ی زمین
The soil is faithful to its trust, and whatever you have sown in it, you carry away the (equivalent in) kind thereof without fraud (on the part of the soil).
خاک امین و هر چه در وی کاشتی ** بی‌‌خیانت جنس آن برداشتی
It has derived this faithfulness from that (Divine) faithfulness, inasmuch as the sun of Justice has shone upon it.510
این امانت ز آن امانت یافته ست ** کافتاب عدل بر وی تافته ست
Until springtide brings the token of God, the soil does not reveal its secrets.
تا نشان حق نیارد نو بهار ** خاک سرها را نکرده آشکار
The Bounteous One who gave to an inanimate thing these informations and this faithfulness and this righteousness,
آن جوادی که جمادی را بداد ** این خبرها وین امانت وین سداد
His grace makes an inanimate thing informed, (while) His wrath makes blind the men of understanding.
مر جمادی را کند فضلش خبیر ** عاقلان را کرده قهر او ضریر
Soul and heart cannot endure that ferment: to whom shall I speak? There is not in the world a single ear (capable of apprehension).
جان و دل را طاقت آن جوش نیست ** با که گویم در جهان یک گوش نیست
Wherever there was an ear, through Him it became an eye; wherever there was a stone, through Him it became a jasper.515
هر کجا گوشی بد از وی چشم گشت ** هر کجا سنگی بد از وی یشم گشت
He is an alchemist—what is alchemy (compared with His action)? He is a giver of miracles (to prophets)—what is magic (compared with these miracles)?
کیمیا ساز است چه بود کیمیا ** معجزه بخش است چه بود سیمیا
This uttering of praise (to Him) is (really) the omission of praise on my part, for this (praise) is a proof of (my) being, and being is a sin.
این ثنا گفتن ز من ترک ثناست ** کین دلیل هستی و هستی خطاست