The Beasts on Trust in God Over Effort
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 1, section 44 of 171: How the beasts asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion and acquisition (ترجیح نهادن نخجیران توکل را بر جهد و اکتساب). Below, each of its 8 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How the beasts asserted the superiority of trust in God to exertion and acquisition ترجیح نهادن نخجیران توکل را بر جهد و اکتساب
جمله گفتند ای حکیم با خبر
الحذر دع لیس یغنی عن قدر
They all said: “O knowing sage, let precaution alone: it is of no avail against the Divine decree.
در حذر شوریدن شور و شر است
رو توکل کن توکل بهتر است
In precaution is the embroilment of broil and woe: go, put thy trust in God: trust in God is better.
با قضا پنجه مزن ای تند و تیز
تا نگیرد هم قضا با تو ستیز
Do not grapple with Destiny, O fierce and furious one, lest Destiny also pick a quarrel with thee.
مرده باید بود پیش حکم حق
تا نیاید زخم از رب الفلق
One must be dead in presence of the decree of God, so that no blow may come from the Lord of the daybreak.”
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