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6
202-211

  • من که باشم چرخ با صد کار و بار  ** زین کمین فریاد کرد از اختیار 
  • Who am I? Heaven, with its hundred (mighty) businesses, cried out for help against this ambush of free-will,
  • که ای خداوند کریم و بردبار  ** ده امانم زین دو شاخه‌ی اختیار 
  • Saying, “Deliver me from this pillory of free-will, O gracious and long-suffering Lord!
  • جذب یک راهه‌ی صراط المستقیم  ** به ز دو راه تردد ای کریم 
  • The one-way pull on the straight Path is better than the two ways of perplexity, O gracious One.
  • زین دو ره گرچه همه مقصد توی  ** لیک خود جان کندن آمد این دوی  205
  • Although Thou art the entire (only) goal of these two ways, yet indeed this duality is agonising to the spirit.
  • زین دو ره گرچه به جز تو عزم نیست  ** لیک هرگز رزم هم‌چون بزم نیست 
  • Although the destination of these two ways is unto Thee alone, yet the battle is never like the banquet.”
  • در نبی بشنو بیانش از خدا  ** آیت اشفقن ان یحملنها 
  • Hearken to the explanation thereof given by God in the Qur’án, (namely) the Verse they shrank from bearing it.
  • این تردد هست در دل چون وغا  ** کین بود به یا که آن حال مرا 
  • This perplexity in the heart is like war: (when a man is perplexed he says, “I wonder) whether this is better for my case or that.”
  • در تردد می‌زند بر همدگر  ** خوف و اومید بهی در کر و فر 
  • In perplexity the fear (of failure) and the hope of success are always in conflict with each other, (now) advancing and (now) retreating.
  • مناجات و پناه جستن به حق از فتنه‌ی اختیار و از فتنه‌ی اسباب اختیار کی سماوات و ارضین از اختیار و اسباب اختیار شکوهیدند و ترسیدند و خلقت آدمی مولع افتاد بر طلب اختیار و اسباب اختیار خویش چنانک بیمار باشد خود را اختیار کم بیند صحت خواهد کی سبب اختیارست تا اختیارش بیفزاید و منصب خواهد تا اختیارش بیفزاید و مهبط قهر حق در امم ماضیه فرط اختیار و اسباب اختیار بوده است هرگز فرعون بی‌نوا کس ندیده است 
  • A prayer and a seeking refuge with God from the temptation of free-will and from the temptation of those things that minister to free-will; for the heavens and the earths dreaded and feared free-will and the things that minister to it, while the nature of Man is addicted to seeking free-will and all that ministers to his free-will; as (for example) if he is sick he feels himself to have little free-will and desires health, which ministers to free-will, in order that his free-will may be increased; and he desires high office in order that his free-will may be increased. And it was excess of free-will and of whatever ministers to it that caused the wrath of God to fall upon the peoples of the past. No one ever saw Pharaoh destitute.
  • اولم این جزر و مد از تو رسید  ** ورنه ساکن بود این بحر ای مجید  210
  • From Thee first came this ebb and flow within me; else, O glorious One, this sea (of mine) was still.
  • هم از آنجا کین تردد دادیم  ** بی‌تردد کن مرا هم از کرم 
  • From the same source whence Thou gavest me this perplexity, graciously (now) make me unperplexed likewise.