- Nay, His bounty is the necessary condition for receptivity: Bounty is the kernel, and receptivity the husk.
- بلک شرط قابلیت داد اوست ** داد لب و قابلیت هست پوست
- The change of Moses' rod into a serpent and the shining of his hand like a (resplendent) sun,
- اینک موسی را عصا ثعبان شود ** هم‌چو خورشیدی کفش رخشان شود
- And a hundred thousand miracles of the prophets which are not comprehended by our mind and understanding— 1540
- صد هزاران معجزات انبیا ** که آن نگنجد در ضمیر و عقل ما
- (These) are not derived from secondary causes but are (under) the (direct) control of God: how can receptivity belong to non-existent things?
- نیست از اسباب تصریف خداست ** نیستها را قابلیت از کجاست
- If receptivity were a necessary condition for God's action, no non-existent thing would come into existence.
- قابلی گر شرط فعل حق بدی ** هیچ معدومی به هستی نامدی
- He (God) hath established a (customary) law and causes and means for the sake of those who seek (Him) under this blue veil (of heaven).
- سنتی بنهاد و اسباب و طرق ** طالبان را زیر این ازرق تتق
- Most happenings come to pass according to the (customary) law, (but) sometimes the (Divine) Power breaks the law.
- بیشتر احوال بر سنت رود ** گاه قدرت خارق سنت شود
- He hath established a goodly law and custom; then He hath made the (evidentiary) miracle a breach of the custom. 1545
- سنت و عادت نهاده با مزه ** باز کرده خرق عادت معجزه
- If honour does not reach us without a (mediating) cause, (yet) the (Divine) Power is not remote from the removal of the cause.
- بی‌سبب گر عز به ما موصول نیست ** قدرت از عزل سبب معزول نیست
- O thou who art caught by the cause, do not fly outside (of causation); but (at the same time) do not suppose the removal of the Causer.
- ای گرفتار سبب بیرون مپر ** لیک عزل آن مسبب ظن مبر