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3072-3081

  • When your friend deprives you of a farthing of profit, the power to pick a quarrel (with him) is (at once) developed in your soul;
  • چون برد یک حبه از تو یار سود  ** اختیار جنگ در جانت گشود 

  • (But) when the hour comes for thanksgiving on account of (God's) benefactions, you have no power of choice and are inferior to a stone.
  • چون بیاید نوبت شکر نعم  ** اختیارت نیست وز سنگی تو کم 

  • Assuredly this will be the excuse of your Hell, (namely), ‘Consider me excused for this burning!’
  • دوزخت را عذر این باشد یقین  ** که اندرین سوزش مرا معذور بین 

  • Since no one holds you excusable on this plea, and (since) this (plea) does not keep you out of the hands of the executioner, 3075
  • کس بدین حجت چو معذورت نداشت  ** وز کف جلاد این دورت نداشت 

  • (Clearly), then, the (present) world is arranged according to this rule, and the state of things in yonder world too is made known to you.
  • پس بدین داور جهان منظوم شد  ** حال آن عالم همت معلوم شد 

  • Another Story in answer to the Necessitarian, confirming (Man's) power of choice and the validity of the (Divine) commands and prohibitions, and showing that the Necessitarian's excuse is not accepted in any religious sect or in any religion and that it does not save him from being duly punished for the (sinful) actions which he has committed, just as the Necessitarian Iblís was not saved (from punishment) by saying (to God), ‘Because Thou hast made me to err.’ And the little indicates the much.
  • حکایت هم در جواب جبری و اثبات اختیار و صحت امر و نهی و بیان آنک عذر جبری در هیچ ملتی و در هیچ دینی مقبول نیست و موجب خلاص نیست از سزای آن کار کی کرده است چنانک خلاص نیافت ابلیس جبری بدان کی گفت بما اغویتنی والقلیل یدل علی الکثیر 

  • A certain man was climbing up a tree and vigorously scattering the fruit in the manner of thieves.
  • آن یکی می‌رفت بالای درخت  ** می‌فشاند آن میوه را دزدانه سخت 

  • The owner of the orchard came along and said (to him), ‘O rascal, where is your reverence for God? What are you doing?’
  • صاحب باغ آمد و گفت ای دنی  ** از خدا شرمیت کو چه می‌کنی 

  • He replied, ‘If a servant of God eat from God's orchard the dates which God has bestowed upon him as a gift,
  • گفت از باغ خدا بنده‌ی خدا  ** گر خورد خرما که حق کردش عطا 

  • Why do you vulgarly blame (him)? Stinginess at the table of the all-Rich Lord!’ 3080
  • عامیانه چه ملامت می‌کنی  ** بخل بر خوان خداوند غنی 

  • ‘O Aybak,’ said he, ‘fetch that rope, that I may give my answer to Bu ’l-Hasan (to this fine fellow).’
  • گفت ای ایبک بیاور آن رسن  ** تا بگویم من جواب بوالحسن