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2827-2836

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

  • که ز یزدان آگهیم و طایعیم ** ما همه نی اتفاقی ضایعیم
  • 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.

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

  • چون زمین دانیش دانا وقت خسف ** در حق قارون که قهرش کرد و نسف 2830
  • (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;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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