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  • این که فردا این کنم یا آن کنم  ** این دلیل اختیارست ای صنم 
  • (The thought), ‘To-morrow I will do this or I will do that,’ is a proof of the power to choose, O worshipful one;
  • وان پشیمانی که خوردی زان بدی  ** ز اختیار خویش گشتی مهتدی  3025
  • And (in the case of) the penitence which you have felt for (having committed) an evil deed, you have been led (into the right path) through your power of choice.
  • جمله قران امر و نهیست و وعید  ** امر کردن سنگ مرمر را کی دید 
  • The entire Qur’án consists of commands and prohibitions and threats (of punishment): who (ever) saw commands given to a marble rock?
  • هیچ دانا هیچ عاقل این کند  ** با کلوخ و سنگ خشم و کین کند 
  • Does any wise man, does any reasonable man, do this? Does he show anger and enmity to brickbats and stones?—
  • که بگفتم کین چنین کن یا چنان  ** چون نکردید ای موات و عاجزان 
  • Saying, ‘I told you to do thus or thus: why have ye not done it, O dead and helpless ones?’
  • عقل کی حکمی کند بر چوب و سنگ  ** عقل کی چنگی زند بر نقش چنگ 
  • How should reason exercise any authority over wood and stone? How should reason lay hold of the painted figure of a cripple,
  • کای غلام بسته دست اشکسته‌پا  ** نیزه برگیر و بیا سوی وغا  3030
  • Saying, ‘O slave with palsied hands and broken legs, take up the lance and come to battle’?
  • خالقی که اختر و گردون کند  ** امر و نهی جاهلانه چون کند 
  • How, (then), should the Creator who is the Maker of stars and sky make commands and prohibitions like those of an ignorant person?
  • احتمال عجز از حق راندی  ** جاهل و گیج و سفیهش خواندی 
  • You have removed from God the possibility of impotence, (but) you have (virtually) called Him ignorant and stupid and foolish.
  • عجز نبود از قدر ور گر بود  ** جاهلی از عاجزی بدتر بود 
  • (Divine) impotence does not follow from the doctrine of Free-will; and even if it do, ignorance is worse than impotence.