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3004-3013

  • The upshot is this, that both the Devil and the (angelic) Spirit who present (objects of desire to us) exist for the purpose of completing (actualising) the power of choice.
  • مخلص این که دیو و روح عرضه‌دار  ** هر دو هستند از تتمه‌ی اختیار 
  • There is an invisible power of choice within us; when it sees two (alternative) objects of desire it waxes strong. 3005
  • اختیاری هست در ما ناپدید  ** چون دو مطلب دید آید در مزید 
  • Teachers beat (school-)children: how should they inflict that correction upon a black stone?
  • اوستادان کودکان را می‌زنند  ** آن ادب سنگ سیه را کی کنند 
  • Do you ever say to a stone, ‘Come to-morrow; and if you don't come, I will give your bad behaviour the punishment it deserves’?
  • هیچ گویی سنگ را فردا بیا  ** ور نیایی من دهم بد را سزا 
  • Does any reasonable man strike a brickbat? Does any one reprove a stone?
  • هیچ عاقل مر کلوخی را زند  ** هیچ با سنگی عتابی کس کند 
  • In (the eyes of) reason, Necessitarianism (jabr) is more shameful than the doctrine of (absolute) Free-will (qadar), because the Necessitarian is denying his own (inward) sense.
  • در خرد جبر از قدر رسواترست  ** زانک جبری حس خود را منکرست 
  • The man who holds the doctrine of (absolute) Free-will does not deny his (inward) sense: (he says), ‘The action of God is not mediated by the senses, O son.’ 3010
  • منکر حس نیست آن مرد قدر  ** فعل حق حسی نباشد ای پسر 
  • He who denies the action of the Almighty Lord is (virtually) denying Him who is indicated by the indication.
  • منکر فعل خداوند جلیل  ** هست در انکار مدلول دلیل 
  • That one (the believer in absolute Free-will) says, ‘There is smoke, but no fire; there is candle-light without any resplendent candle’;
  • آن بگوید دود هست و نار نی  ** نور شمعی بی ز شمعی روشنی 
  • And this one (the Necessitarian) sees the fire plainly, (but) for the sake of denial he says it does not exist.
  • وین همی‌بیند معین نار را  ** نیست می‌گوید پی انکار را