The gall-bladders even of courageous men would burst: he (such a one) would neither go his way nor care for any work.
زهرههای پر دلان هم بر درد ** نه رود ره نه غم کاری خورد
Neither would there remain to his heart endurance in supplication, nor to his body strength for fasting and (ritual) prayer.
نه دلش را تاب ماند در نیاز ** نه تنش را قوت روزه و نماز
He would become (good for) nothing as a mouse before a cat; he would be distraught as a lamb before a wolf.
همچو موشی پیش گربه لا شود ** همچو بره پیش گرگ از جا رود
No power to plan or move would remain in him: therefore I tend you without speaking.1915
اندر او نه حیله ماند نه روش ** پس کنم ناگفته تان من پرورش
I am mute, like Bú Bakr-i Rabábí; I handle the iron, like David,
همچو بو بکر ربابی تن زنم ** دست چون داود در آهن زنم
So that by my hand the (seemingly) impossible is brought to pass, and wings are restored to the bird whose plumes were torn away.
تا محال از دست من حالی شود ** مرغ پر برکنده را بالی شود
Since there is (the text) the hand of God is above their hands, the One (God) has declared our hand to be His hand.
چون ید الله فوق أیدیهم بود ** دست ما را دست خود فرمود احد
Therefore mine is surely a long hand that has passed beyond the Seventh Heaven.
پس مرا دست دراز آمد یقین ** بر گذشته ز آسمان هفتمین
My hand showed (its) cunning upon the sky: O teacher of the Qur’án, recite the moon hath been cleft asunder.’1920
دست من بنمود بر گردون هنر ** مقریا بر خوان که انشق القمر
This characteristic, moreover, is on account of the weakness of (men's) understandings: how is it possible to explain the (Divine) omnipotence to the weak?
این صفت هم بهر ضعف عقلهاست ** با ضعیفان شرح قدرت کی رواست