بخش 48 - باز ترجیح نهادن نخچیران توکل را بر جهد

They all lifted up their voices (to dispute) with him, saying, “Those covetous ones who sowed (the seed of) means,

Myriads on myriads of men and women—why, then, did they remain deprived of fortune?

From the beginning of the world myriads of generations have opened a hundred mouths, like dragons:

Those clever people devised plots (of such power) that the mountain thereby was torn up from its foundation.

The Glorious (God) described their plots (when He said): (though their guile be such) that the tops of the mountains might be moved thereby.

(But) except the portion which came to pass (was predestined) in eternity, nothing showed its face (accrued to them) from their scheming and doing.

They all fell from (failed in) plan and act: the acts and decrees of the Maker remained.

O illustrious one, do not regard work as aught but a name! O cunning one, think not that exertion is aught but a vain fancy!”