بخش 133 - منع کردن انبیا را از نصیحت کردن و حجت آوردن جبریانه

The people (of Sabá) said, “O admonishers, what ye have said is enough, if there be any one in this village.

God hath set a lock upon our hearts; none can prevail against the Creator.

That Artist made the picture of us to be this: this will not be altered by talking.

A hundred years you may tell the pebble to become a ruby, a hundred years you may tell the old to become new;

You may tell earth to assume the qualities of water, you may tell water to become honey or milk—

(’Tis all in vain): He is the Creator of the heavens and the heavenly ones, the Creator of water and earth and earthly beings.

To heaven He gave its circling motion and its purity; to (the mixed) water and earth its dark appearance and its (power of) growth.

How can heaven choose turbidity? How can (the mixed) earth and water buy purity?

To every one He hath allotted a certain course: how should a mountain by any effort become as a straw?”