Inasmuch as He hath joined the quality to the soul, know that it (the quality) is congruous, like eyes and face.2775
چون صفت با جان قرین کردست او ** پس مناسب دانش همچون چشم و رو
The (good and evil) qualities are congruous in the good and evil (souls): congruous are the letters that God hath written.
شد مناسب وصفها در خوب و زشت ** شد مناسب حرفها که حق نبشت
The eye and the heart are between two fingers like a pen in the hand of the writer, O Husayn.
دیده و دل هست بین اصبعین ** چون قلم در دست کاتب ای حسین
(These) are the fingers of Grace and Wrath, and between them the pen, the heart, is in a state of distress or ease (caused) by these fingers.
اصبع لطفست و قهر و در میان ** کلک دل با قبض و بسطی زین بنان
O pen, if thou art one that (duly) magnifies (God), consider whose two fingers thou art between.
ای قلم بنگر گر اجلالیستی ** که میان اصبعین کیستی
All thy volition and movement are (controlled) by this finger: thy head (point) is on the crossways of the assembly-place.2780
جمله قصد و جنبشت زین اصبعست ** فرق تو بر چار راه مجمعست
These letters (symbolising) thy (diverse) states are of His inditing: thy forming a purpose and changing it is just from His forming a purpose and changing it.
این حروف حالهات از نسخ اوست ** عزم و فسخت هم ز عزم و فسخ اوست
There is no way but supplication and self-abasement: not every pen is conscious of this subjection to (Divine) control.
جز نیاز و جز تضرع راه نیست ** زین تقلب هر قلم آگاه نیست
The pen knows this (control), but (only) according to its (fore-ordained) measure: it manifests its measure (of knowledge) in good and evil (actions).
این قلم داند ولی بر قدر خود ** قدر خود پیدا کند در نیک و بد
(As regards) that (apologue) which they attached to the hare and the elephant, so that they confused (the dispensation of) eternity with (mere) tricks,
آنچ در خرگوش و پیل آویختند ** تا ازل را با حیل آمیختند
[Explaining that it is not seemly for every one to adduce parables, especially concerning Divine actions.]