- 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
- They all lifted up their voices (to dispute) with him, saying, “Those covetous ones who sowed (the seed of) means,
- جمله با وی بانگها برداشتند ** کان حریصان که سببها کاشتند
- Myriads on myriads of men and women—why, then, did they remain deprived of fortune?
- صد هزار اندر هزار از مرد و زن ** پس چرا محروم ماندند از زمن
- From the beginning of the world myriads of generations have opened a hundred mouths, like dragons: 950
- صد هزاران قرن ز آغاز جهان ** همچو اژدرها گشاده صد دهان
- Those clever people devised plots (of such power) that the mountain thereby was torn up from its foundation.
- مکرها کردند آن دانا گروه ** که ز بن بر کنده شد ز آن مکر کوه