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2818-2842

  • The Nile has learned from God to discriminate, for it opened (the door) for these (Israelites) and shut fast (the door) against those (Egyptians).
  • نیل تمییز از خدا آموختست ** که گشاد آن را و این را سخت بست

  • His grace makes the Nile intelligent; His wrath makes Cain foolish.
  • لطف او عاقل کند مر نیل را ** قهر او ابله کند قابیل را

  • He, from kindness, created intelligence in lifeless things; He, because of His wrath, cut off intelligence from the intelligent one. 2820
  • در جمادات از کرم عقل آفرید ** عقل از عاقل به قهر خود برید

  • By (His) grace an intelligence appeared in lifeless matter, and through (His) chastisement knowledge fled from the intelligent.
  • در جماد از لطف عقلی شد پدید ** وز نکال از عاقلان دانش رمید

  • There, by (His) command the rain-like intelligence poured down; here, intelligence saw God's anger and took to flight.
  • عقل چون باران به امر آنجا بریخت ** عقل این سو خشم حق دید و گریخت

  • Clouds and sun and moon and lofty stars, all come and go according to arrangement.
  • ابر و خورشید و مه و نجم بلند ** جمله بر ترتیب آیند و روند

  • None comes but at its appointed hour, so that it neither lags behind the time nor (arrives) before.
  • هر یکی ناید مگر در وقت خویش ** که نه پس ماند ز هنگام و نه پیش

  • How hast not thou understood this from the prophets? They brought knowledge into stone and rod, 2825
  • چون نکردی فهم این را ز انبیا ** دانش آوردند در سنگ و عصا

  • That thou, (judging) by analogy, might’st undoubtingly deem the other lifeless things to be like rod and stone (in this respect).
  • تا جمادات دگر را بی لباس ** چون عصا و سنگ داری از قیاس

  • The obedience (to God) of stone and rod is made manifest and gives information concerning the other lifeless things,
  • طاعت سنگ و عصا ظاهر شود ** وز جمادات دگر مخبر شود

  • That (they say), “We are cognisant of God and obedient (to Him): we all are (bearing witness to His wisdom) not by chance and in vain.
  • که ز یزدان آگهیم و طایعیم ** ما همه نی اتفاقی ضایعیم

  • As (for example) the water of the Nile: thou knowest that at the time of drowning it made a distinction between the two peoples;
  • هم‌چو آب نیل دانی وقت غرق ** کو میان هر دو امت کرد فرق

  • (And) as the earth: thou knowest it to be possessed of knowledge, at the time of (its) sinking, in regard to Qárún whom He subdued and swept away; 2830
  • چون زمین دانیش دانا وقت خسف ** در حق قارون که قهرش کرد و نسف

  • (And) as the moon, which heard the (Divine) command and hastened (to obey) and then became two halves in the sky and split;
  • چون قمر که امر بشنید و شتافت ** پس دو نیمه گشت بر چرخ و شکافت

  • (And) as the trees and stones which everywhere overtly made the salaam to Mustafá (Mohammed).
  • چون درخت و سنگ کاندر هر مقام ** مصطفی را کرده ظاهرالسلام

  • Reply to the materialist who disbelieves in the Deity and says that the world is eternal.
  • جواب دهری کی منکر الوهیت است و عالم را قدیم می‌گوید

  • Yesterday some one was saying, “The world is originated in time: this heaven is passing away, and God is its inheritor.”
  • دی یکی می‌گفت عالم حادثست ** فانیست این چرخ و حقش وارثست

  • A philosopher said, “How do you know (its) temporal origin? How should the rain know the temporality of the cloud?
  • فلسفیی گفت چون دانی حدوث ** حادثی ابر چون داند غیوث

  • You are not even a mote of the (celestial) revolution: how should you know the temporality of the sun? 2835
  • ذره‌ای خود نیستی از انقلاب ** تو چه می‌دانی حدوث آفتاب

  • The little worm that is buried in filth—how should it know the end and beginning of the earth?
  • کرمکی کاندر حدث باشد دفین ** کی بداند آخر و بدو زمین

  • You have heard this by rote from your father: through foolishness you have become involved in this (belief).
  • این به تقلید از پدر بشنیده‌ای ** از حماقت اندرین پیچیده‌ای

  • What is the demonstrative argument for its temporality? Tell (me) or else keep silence and do not seek (indulge in) excessive talk.”
  • چیست برهان بر حدوث این بگو ** ورنه خامش کن فزون گویی مجو

  • He said, “One day I saw two parties searching in this deep sea,
  • گفت دیدم اندرین بحث عمیق ** بحث می‌کردند روزی دو فریق

  • (Engaged) in disputation and controversy and desperate battle: a crowd gathered round those two persons. 2840
  • در جدال و در خصام و در ستوه ** گشت هنگامه بر آن دو کس گروه

  • I went towards the crowded multitude and took notice of their (the disputants') affair.
  • من به سوی جمع هنگامه شدم ** اطلاع از حال ایشان بستدم

  • One was saying, ‘The sky will pass away: without any doubt, this edifice hath a builder.’
  • آن یکی می‌گفت گردون فانیست ** بی‌گمانی این بنا را بانیست