- The mouse-soul is naught but a nibbler: to the mouse is given a mind proportionate to its need,
- نفس موشی نیست الا لقمه رند ** قدر حاجت موش را عقلی دهند
- Because without need the Almighty God does not give anything to any one.
- ز انکه بیحاجت خداوند عزیز ** مینبخشد هیچ کس را هیچ چیز
- If the earth had not been needed by the (inhabitants of the) world, the Lord of all beings would not have created any (earth); 3275
- گر نبودی حاجت عالم زمین ** نافریدی هیچ رب العالمین
- And if this quaking earth had not needed mountains, He would not have created them sublime (as they are);
- وین زمین مضطرب محتاج کوه ** گر نبودی نافریدی پر شکوه
- And if there had not been need of the heavenly spheres also, He would not have created from non-existence the Seven Skies.
- ور نبودی حاجت افلاک هم ** هفت گردون نافریدی از عدم
- The sun and moon and these stars—how did they come plain into view except through need?
- آفتاب و ماه و این استارگان ** جز به حاجت کی پدید آمد عیان
- Need, then is the noose for (all) things that exsist: He (God) gives to Man instruments in proportion to his need.
- پس کمند هستها حاجت بود ** قدر حاجت مرد را آلت دهد
- Therefore quickly augment thy need, O needy one, in order that the Sea of Bounty may surge up in loving kindness. 3280
- پس بیفزا حاجت ای محتاج زود ** تا بجوشد در کرم دریای جود
- These beggars (are) on the (public) road, and every sufferer (among them) is displaying his need to the people—
- این گدایان بر ره و هر مبتلا ** حاجت خود مینماید خلق را
- Blindness and palsy and sickness and pain—that men's pity may be aroused by this need.
- کوری و شلی و بیماری و درد ** تا از این حاجت بجنبد رحم مرد