(Namely), the disputation of the terrestrial angels with the (Divine) Majesty as to making our Father (Adam) the Vicegerent.
بحث املاک زمین با کبریا ** در خلیفه کردن بابای ما
When he casts his eye forward he sees plainly that which shall be (all that shall come to pass) till the (Last) Congregation.
چون نظر در پیش افکند او بدید ** آنچ خواهد بود تا محشر پدید
Therefore he sees back to the root of the root (the primal origin), and he sees forward clairvoyantly to the Day of Decision.
پس ز پس می‌بیند او تا اصل اصل ** پیش می‌بیند عیان تا روز فصل
Every one, according to the measure of his spiritual enlightenment, sees the things unseen in proportion to the polishing (of the heart's mirror).
هر کسی اندازه‌ی روشن‌دلی ** غیب را بیند به قدر صیقلی
The more he polishes, the more he sees and the more visible does the form (of things unseen) become to him.2910
هر که صیقل بیش کرد او بیش دید ** بیشتر آمد برو صورت پدید
If you say that that (spiritual) purity is (bestowed by) the grace of God, this success in polishing (the heart) is also (derived) from that (Divine) bounty.
گر تو گویی کان صفا فضل خداست ** نیز این توفیق صیقل زان عطاست
That (devotional) work and prayer is in proportion to the (worshipper's) aspiration: Man hath nothing but what he hath striven after.
قدر همت باشد آن جهد و دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی
God alone is the giver of aspiration: no base churl aspires to be a king.
واهب همت خداوندست و بس ** همت شاهی ندارد هیچ خس
God's assignment of a particular lot to any one does not hinder (him from exercising) consent and will and choice;
نیست تخصیص خدا کس را به کار ** مانع طوع و مراد و اختیار
But when He brings some trouble on an ill-fated man, he (that man) ungratefully packs off in flight;2915
لیک چون رنجی دهد بدبخت را ** او گریزاند به کفران رخت را