Since His ordainment snapped the cord of thy contrivance, how was not God's ordainment perfectly established (clearly proven) to thee?
چون قضایش حبل تدبیرت سکست ** چون نشد بر تو قضای آن درست
(Showing that) the annulment and destruction of (human) resolutions (is) in order to let man know that He (God) is the Lord and the Almighty; and His occasional non-annulment of his (man's) resolution and His carrying it into effect (is) in order that hope may urge him to form a resolution, so that He again may destroy it, to the end that warning may follow on warning.
فسخ عزایم و نقضها جهت با خبر کردن آدمی را از آنک مالک و قاهر اوست و گاه گاه عزم او را فسخ ناکردن و نافذ داشتن تا طمع او را بر عزم کردن دارد تا باز عزمش را بشکند تا تنبیه بر تنبیه بود
In the course of events your resolutions and purposes now and then come right (are fulfilled),
عزمها و قصدها در ماجرا ** گاه گاهی راست میآید ترا
In order that, through hope of that (fulfilment), your heart may form an intention, and that He may once more destroy your intention.
تا به طمع آن دلت نیت کند ** بار دیگر نیتت را بشکند
For if He were to keep you wholly unsuccessful, your heart would despair: how would it sow (the seed of) expectation?
And unless it sowed (the seed of) expectation, how from its barrenness would its subjection (to the Divine will) become apparent to it?4465
ور بکاریدی امل از عوریش ** کی شدی پیدا برو مقهوریش
By their failures (to achieve success) the lovers are made aware of their Lord.
عاشقان از بیمرادیهای خویش ** باخبر گشتند از مولای خویش
Unsuccess is the guide to Paradise: hearken, O man of goodly nature, to (the tradition), “Paradise is encompassed (with pains).”
بیمرادی شد قلاوز بهشت ** حفت الجنه شنو ای خوش سرشت
(Granted) that all that you desire is broken-legged (unsuccessful), then there is One whose pleasure is fulfilled.
که مراداتت همه اشکستهپاست ** پس کسی باشد که کام او رواست
Therefore the sincere (believers) have become broken (abased) before Him; but where indeed is (their abasement in comparison with) the abasement of those who love (Him)?
پس شدند اشکستهاش آن صادقان ** لیک کو خود آن شکست عاشقان
The intelligent are abased before Him from necessity; the lovers are abased with hundredfold free-will.4470
عاقلان اشکستهاش از اضطرار ** عاشقان اشکسته با صد اختیار