(The text) thou didst not throw when thou threwest is relative: it is negation and affirmation: both are authorised.
ما رمیت اذ رمیت از نسبتست ** نفی و اثباتست و هر دو مثبتست
Thou threwest that (gravel), since it was on thy hand; thou didst not throw, for God manifested (His) power.3660
آن تو افکندی چو بر دست تو بود ** تو نه افکندی که قوت حق نمود
The strength of one born of Adam has a limit: how should a handful of earth become (the cause of) the rout of an army?
زور آدمزاد را حدی بود ** مشت خاک اشکست لشکر کی شود
“(O Mohammed), the handful is thy handful, and the throwing is from Me”: on account of these two relations (both) the denial and the affirmation of it (the throwing) are right.
مشت مشت تست و افکندن ز ماست ** زین دو نسبت نفی و اثباتش رواست
The prophets are known by their enemies, just as their (the enemies') children are not doubtful (to their parents).
یعرفون الانبیا اضدادهم ** مثل ما لا یشتبه اولادهم
The unbelievers know them (the prophets) as (they know) their children by a hundred indications and a hundred signs,
همچو فرزندان خود دانندشان ** منکران با صد دلیل و صد نشان
But, from jealousy and envy, they conceal (their knowledge) and attach themselves to (become addicted to saying) “I do not know.”3665
لیک از رشک و حسد پنهان کنند ** خویشتن را بر ندانم میزنند
Then, since He (God) hath said, “He (the unbeliever) knows,” how hath He said in another place?—“None knoweth them except Me, so leave off (seeking to know them);
پس چو یعرف گفت چون جای دگر ** گفت لایعرفهم غیری فذر
Verily, they are hidden beneath My tents.” None knows them by (immediate) experience except God.
انهم تحت قبابی کامنون ** جز که یزدانشان نداند ز آزمون
Regard also as (explicable) by means of relation this (subject) which was opened (above), (namely) that you know and do not know Noah.
هم بنسبت گیر این مفتوح را ** که بدانی و ندانی نوح را