Limbs and bodies are congruous; qualities are congruous with souls.
شد مناسب عضوها و ابدانها ** شد مناسب وصفها با جانها
Unquestionably the quality of every soul has congruity with the soul; for God fashions it (accordingly).
وصف هر جانی تناسب باشدش ** بی گمان با جان که حق بتراشدش
Inasmuch as He hath joined the quality to the soul, know that it (the quality) is congruous, like eyes and face.2775
چون صفت با جان قرین کردست او ** پس مناسب دانش همچون چشم و رو
The (good and evil) qualities are congruous in the good and evil (souls): congruous are the letters that God hath written.
شد مناسب وصفها در خوب و زشت ** شد مناسب حرفها که حق نبشت
The eye and the heart are between two fingers like a pen in the hand of the writer, O Husayn.
دیده و دل هست بین اصبعین ** چون قلم در دست کاتب ای حسین
(These) are the fingers of Grace and Wrath, and between them the pen, the heart, is in a state of distress or ease (caused) by these fingers.
اصبع لطفست و قهر و در میان ** کلک دل با قبض و بسطی زین بنان
O pen, if thou art one that (duly) magnifies (God), consider whose two fingers thou art between.
ای قلم بنگر گر اجلالیستی ** که میان اصبعین کیستی
All thy volition and movement are (controlled) by this finger: thy head (point) is on the crossways of the assembly-place.2780
جمله قصد و جنبشت زین اصبعست ** فرق تو بر چار راه مجمعست
These letters (symbolising) thy (diverse) states are of His inditing: thy forming a purpose and changing it is just from His forming a purpose and changing it.
این حروف حالهات از نسخ اوست ** عزم و فسخت هم ز عزم و فسخ اوست
There is no way but supplication and self-abasement: not every pen is conscious of this subjection to (Divine) control.
جز نیاز و جز تضرع راه نیست ** زین تقلب هر قلم آگاه نیست