muqarrar shudan-e-tarjih-e-jahd bar tawakkul

How the superiority of exertion to trust in God was established.

The lion gave many proofs in this style,

so that those necessitarians became tired of answering (him).

Fox and deer and hare and jackal abandoned

(the doctrine of) necessity and (ceased from) disputation.

They made covenants with the furious lion,

(ensuring) that he should incur no loss in this bargain,

(That) the daily ration should come to him without trouble,

and that he should not need to make a further demand.

Day by day the one on whom the lot fell

would run to the lion as (swiftly as) a cheetah.

When this cup (of death) came round to the hare,

the hare cried out, Why, how long (are we to endure this) injustice?

How the superiority of exertion to trust in God was established.

The lion gave many proofs in this style,

so that those necessitarians became tired of answering (him).

Fox and deer and hare and jackal abandoned

(the doctrine of) necessity and (ceased from) disputation.

They made covenants with the furious lion,

(ensuring) that he should incur no loss in this bargain,

(That) the daily ration should come to him without trouble,

and that he should not need to make a further demand.

Day by day the one on whom the lot fell

would run to the lion as (swiftly as) a cheetah.

When this cup (of death) came round to the hare,

the hare cried out, Why, how long (are we to endure this) injustice?