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  • هیچ ماند این مثر با اثر  ** هیچ ماند بانگ و نوحه با ضرر 
  • Does this cause ever resemble its effect? Does the cry (of pain) and lamentation ever resemble the loss (that caused it)?
  • نوحه را صورت ضرر بی‌صورتست  ** دست خایند از ضرر کش نیست دست 
  • The lamentation has a form, the loss is formless: they (the losers) gnaw their hands on account of a loss that has no hand.
  • این مثل نالایقست ای مستدل  ** حیله‌ی تفهیم را جهد المقل 
  • This comparison, O seeker of guidance, does not fit (the case), (but) ’tis the best effort a poor man can make to explain it.
  • صنع بی‌صورت بکارد صورتی  ** تن بروید با حواس و آلتی  3720
  • The formless working (of God) sows (the seed of) a form (idea), (whence) there grows up a body endowed with senses and a (rational) faculty,
  • تا چه صورت باشد آن بر وفق خود  ** اندر آرد جسم را در نیک و بد 
  • So that the form (idea), whatever it be, according to its own nature brings the body into (a state of) good or evil.
  • صورت نعمت بود شاکر شود  ** صورت مهلت بود صابر شود 
  • If it be a form (idea) of beneficence, it (the body) turns to thanksgiving; if it be a form of deferment, it (the body) becomes patient;
  • صورت رحمی بود بالان شود  ** صورت زخمی بود نالان شود 
  • If it be a form of mercy, it (the body) becomes flourishing; if it be a form of repulse, it (the body) becomes full of moans;
  • صورت شهری بود گیرد سفر  ** صورت تیری بود گیرد سپر 
  • If it be the form of a city, it (the body) takes a journey (thither); if it be the form of an arrow, it (the body) takes a shield (in defence);
  • صورت خوبان بود عشرت کند  ** صورت غیبی بود خلوت کند  3725
  • If it be the form of fair ones, it (the body) indulges in enjoyment; if it be a form of the unseen world, it (the body) practises religious seclusion.
  • صورت محتاجی آرد سوی کسب  ** صورت بازو وری آرد به غصب 
  • The form of want leads (the body) to earn (the means of livelihood); the form of strength of arm leads (the body) to seize (the property of others) by force.