The Lion on Effort Over Resignation
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 1, section 45 of 171: How the lion upheld the superiority of exertion and acquisition to trust in God and resignation (ترجیح نهادن شیر جهد و اکتساب را بر توکل و تسلیم). Below, each of its 6 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How the lion upheld the superiority of exertion and acquisition to trust in God and resignation ترجیح نهادن شیر جهد و اکتساب را بر توکل و تسلیم
گفت آری گر توکل رهبر است
این سبب هم سنت پیغمبر است
“Yes,” he said; “(but) if trust in God is the (true) guide, (yet use of) the means too is the Prophet’s rule (Sunna).
گفت پیغمبر به آواز بلند
با توکل زانوی اشتر ببند
The Prophet said with a loud voice, ‘While trusting in God bind the knee of thy camel.’
رمز الکاسب حبیب الله شنو
از توکل در سبب کاهل مشو
Hearken to the signification of ‘The earner (worker) is beloved of God’: through trusting in God do not become neglectful as to the (ways and) means.”
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