“Yes,” he said; “(but) if trust in God is the (true) guide, (yet use of) the means too is the Prophet's rule (Sunna).
گفت آری گر توکل رهبر است ** این سبب هم سنت پیغمبر است
The Prophet said with a loud voice, ‘While trusting in God bind the knee of thy camel.’
گفت پیغمبر به آواز بلند ** با توکل زانوی اشتر ببند
Hearken to the signification of ‘The earner (worker) is beloved of God’: through trusting in God do not become neglectful as to the (ways and) means.”
رمز الکاسب حبیب الله شنو ** از توکل در سبب کاهل مشو
How the beasts preferred trust in God to exertion.
ترجیح نهادن نخجیران توکل را بر اجتهاد
The party (of beasts) answered him, saying, “Regard acquisition (work), arising from the infirmity of (God's) creatures, as a mouthful of deceit proportionate to the size of the gullet.915
قوم گفتندش که کسب از ضعف خلق ** لقمه‌‌ی تزویر دان بر قدر حلق
There is no work better than trust in God: what, indeed, is dearer (to God) than resignation?
نیست کسبی از توکل خوبتر ** چیست از تسلیم خود محبوبتر
Often do they flee from affliction (only) to (fall into) affliction; often do they recoil from the snake (only) to (meet with) the dragon.
بس گریزند از بلا سوی بلا ** بس جهند از مار سوی اژدها
Man devised (something), and his device was a snare (wherein he was trapped): that which he thought to be life was (actually) the drainer of his blood (his destroyer).
حیله کرد انسان و حیله‌‌ش دام بود ** آن که جان پنداشت خون آشام بود
He locked the door while the foe was in the house: the plot of Pharaoh was a story of this sort.
در ببست و دشمن اندر خانه بود ** حیله‌‌ی فرعون زین افسانه بود
That vengeful man slew hundreds of thousands of babes, while the one he was searching after was in his (Pharaoh's) house.920
صد هزاران طفل کشت آن کینه کش ** و آن که او می‌‌جست اندر خانه‌‌اش
Since in our eyesight (foresight) there is much defect, go, let your own sight pass away (faná) in the sight of the Friend (God).
دیده‌‌ی ما چون بسی علت در اوست ** رو فنا کن دید خود در دید دوست