How can one speak of ‘Umar to Shí‘ites? How can one play a lute before the deaf?
کی توان با شیعه گفتن از عمر ** کی توان بربط زدن در پیش کر
But if there is any one (hidden) in a nook in the village, the hue and cry that I have raised is enough.
لیک گر در ده به گوشه یک کسست ** های هویی که برآوردم بسست
To him that is worthy to (hear) the exposition, stones and brickbats become an articulate and well-grounded exponent.
مستحق شرح را سنگ و کلوخ ** ناطقی گردد مشرح با رسوخ
Explaining that whatsoever God most High bestowed and created— the heavens and the earths and the substances and the accidents— He created all (this) at the demand of need, and that one must make one's self in need of a thing, so that He may bestow it; for “… Or He who answers the sorely distressed when he calls unto Him?” Sore distress is the evidence of worthiness (to receive the Divine bounty).
بیان آنک حق تعالی هرچه داد و آفرید از سماوات و ارضین و اعیان و اعراض همه باستدعاء حاجت آفرید خود را محتاج چیزی باید کردن تا بدهد کی امن یجیب المضطر اذا دعاه اضطرار گواه استحقاقست
’Twas Mary's want and pain that made such a babe (as Jesus) begin to speak (in the cradle).
آن نیاز مریمی بودست و درد ** که چنان طفلی سخن آغاز کرد
Part of her spoke on her behalf without her: every part of thee hath speech in secret.3205
جزو او بی او برای او بگفت ** جزو جزوت گفت دارد در نهفت
Thy hands and feet become witnesses (against thee), O slave: how long wilt thou set hand and foot (strenuously apply thyself) to denial?
دست و پا شاهد شوندت ای رهی ** منکری را چند دست و پا نهی
And if thou art not worthy of (hearing) the exposition and the speech, the rational soul of the speaker saw thee (to be unworthy) and went to sleep (refrained from action).
ور نباشی مستحق شرح و گفت ** ناطقه‌ی ناطق ترا دید و بخفت
Whatsoever grew has grown for the sake of the needy, in order that a seeker may find the thing he sought.
هر چه رویید از پی محتاج رست ** تا بیابد طالبی چیزی که جست
If God most High has created the heavens, He has created them for the purpose of removing needs.
حق تعالی گر سماوات آفرید ** از برای دفع حاجات آفرید
Wherever a pain is, the cure goes thither; wherever a poverty is, the provision goes thither.3210
هر کجا دردی دوا آنجا رود ** هر کجا فقری نوا آنجا رود