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  • ور دو کس در شب خبر آرد ترا  ** روز از گفتن شناسی هر دو را 
  • And if two persons bring news to you in the night, you will recognise both of them in the daytime by their (manner of) speaking.
  • بانگ شیر و بانگ سگ در شب رسید  ** صورت هر دو ز تاریکی ندید 
  • (If) during the night the sound of a lion and the sound of a dog have come (into some one's ear) and he has not seen their forms on account of the darkness,
  • روز شد چون باز در بانگ آمدند  ** پس شناسدشان ز بانگ آن هوشمند 
  • When day breaks and they begin to make (the same) sound again, the intelligent (hearer) will know them by the sound (which they make).
  • مخلص این که دیو و روح عرضه‌دار  ** هر دو هستند از تتمه‌ی اختیار 
  • The upshot is this, that both the Devil and the (angelic) Spirit who present (objects of desire to us) exist for the purpose of completing (actualising) the power of choice.
  • اختیاری هست در ما ناپدید  ** چون دو مطلب دید آید در مزید  3005
  • There is an invisible power of choice within us; when it sees two (alternative) objects of desire it waxes strong.
  • اوستادان کودکان را می‌زنند  ** آن ادب سنگ سیه را کی کنند 
  • Teachers beat (school-)children: how should they inflict that correction upon a black stone?
  • هیچ گویی سنگ را فردا بیا  ** ور نیایی من دهم بد را سزا 
  • Do you ever say to a stone, ‘Come to-morrow; and if you don't come, I will give your bad behaviour the punishment it deserves’?
  • هیچ عاقل مر کلوخی را زند  ** هیچ با سنگی عتابی کس کند 
  • Does any reasonable man strike a brickbat? Does any one reprove a stone?
  • در خرد جبر از قدر رسواترست  ** زانک جبری حس خود را منکرست 
  • In (the eyes of) reason, Necessitarianism (jabr) is more shameful than the doctrine of (absolute) Free-will (qadar), because the Necessitarian is denying his own (inward) sense.
  • منکر حس نیست آن مرد قدر  ** فعل حق حسی نباشد ای پسر  3010
  • The man who holds the doctrine of (absolute) Free-will does not deny his (inward) sense: (he says), ‘The action of God is not mediated by the senses, O son.’