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  • اختیار آن را نکو باشد که او  ** مالک خود باشد اندر اتقوا 
  • Free-will is good for him (alone) who is master of himself in (respect of obeying the command) ‘Fear ye (God).’
  • چون نباشد حفظ و تقوی زینهار  ** دور کن آلت بینداز اختیار  650
  • When there is no safeguarding (of one's self) and piety, beware, put far (from thee) the instrument (that serves as a means to sin): drop free-will.
  • جلوه‌گاه و اختیارم آن پرست  ** بر کنم پر را که در قصد سرست 
  • Those feathers are the object of my display (pride) and freewill: I will tear out the feathers, for they are in quest of my head.
  • نیست انگارد پر خود را صبور  ** تا پرش در نفکند در شر و شور 
  • The self-restrained man deems his feathers to be naught, in order that his feathers may not cast him into calamity and bale.
  • پس زیانش نیست پر گو بر مکن  ** گر رسد تیری به پیش آرد مجن 
  • Therefore his feathers are no harm to him: let him not tear them out, (for) if an arrow (of temptation) come (against him) he will present the shield (of self-restraint).
  • لیک بر من پر زیبا دشمنیست  ** چونک از جلوه‌گری صبریم نیست 
  • But to me my beauteous feathers are an enemy, since I cannot restrain myself from making a display.
  • گر بدی صبر و حفاظم راه‌بر  ** بر فزودی ز اختیارم کر و فر  655
  • If self-restraint and safeguarding had been my guide, my (spiritual) conquest would have been increased by (the exercise of) free-will;
  • هم‌چو طفلم یا چو مست اندر فتن  ** نیست لایق تیغ اندر دست من 
  • (But) in (the case of) temptations I am like a child or a drunken man: the sword is unsuitable (out of place) in my hand.
  • گر مرا عقلی بدی و منزجر  ** تیغ اندر دست من بودی ظفر 
  • Had I possessed an intellect and conscience (to restrain me), the sword in my hand would have been (a means of gaining) victory.
  • عقل باید نورده چون آفتاب  ** تا زند تیغی که نبود جز صواب 
  • An intellect giving light like the sun is needed to wield the sword that never misses the right direction.