Rumi's Masnavi - Freewill is the endeavour to thank (God) for His beneficence: your necessitarianism is the denial of that beneficence.

Freewill is the endeavour to thank (God) for His beneficence: your necessitarianism is the denial of that beneficence.

سعی شکر نعمتش قدرت بود ** جبر تو انکار آن نعمت بود

Thanksgiving for the power (of acting freely) increases your power; necessitarianism takes the (Divine) gift (of freewill) out of your hand.

شکر قدرت قدرتت افزون کند ** جبر نعمت از کفت بیرون کند

Your necessitarianism is (like) sleeping on the road: do not sleep! Sleep not, until you see the gate and the threshold! 940

جبر تو خفتن بود در ره مخسب ** تا نبینی آن در و درگه مخسب‌‌

Beware! do not sleep, O inconsiderate sluggard, save underneath that fruit-laden tree,

هان مخسب ای جبری بی‌‌اعتبار ** جز به زیر آن درخت میوه‌‌دار

So that every moment the wind may shake the boughs and shower upon the sleeper (spiritual) dessert and provision for the journey.

تا که شاخ افشان کند هر لحظه باد ** بر سر خفته بریزد نقل و زاد

(How absurd) to be a necessitarian and sleep amidst highwaymen! How should the untimely bird receive quarter?

جبر و خفتن در میان ره زنان ** مرغ بی‌‌هنگام کی یابد امان‌‌

And if you turn up your nose at His signs, you deem (yourself) a man, but when you consider (more deeply), you are (only) a woman.

ور اشارتهاش را بینی زنی ** مرد پنداری و چون بینی زنی‌‌

This measure of understanding which you possess is lost: a head from which the understanding flies away, 945

این قدر عقلی که داری گم شود ** سر که عقل از وی بپرد دم شود

Because ingratitude is wickedness and disgrace and brings the ingrate to the bottom of Hell-fire.

ز آن که بی‌‌شکری بود شوم و شنار ** می‌‌برد بی‌‌شکر را در قعر نار

If you are putting trust in God, put trust (in Him) as regards (your) work: sow (the seed), then rely upon the Almighty.”

گر توکل می‌‌کنی در کار کن ** کشت کن پس تکیه بر جبار کن‌‌

How the beasts once more asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion.

باز ترجیح نهادن نخجیران توکل را بر جهد