بخش ۶ - در آفرینشِ ماه

What this poem says

The wise God has also set a lamp for the dark nights, so that utter darkness should not rule the earth — learn a lesson from this order yourself, and turn away from evil as far as you are able. This heavenly lamp, the moon, lights the dark world in a thirty-day cycle. At the start of the month, this night-brightening star appears in the sky very thin and pale yellow, as though bent double from sheer weakness. This slender crescent, curved like the bowed forms of sorrowful lovers, shows itself only briefly in the first nights and soon disappears. But as the nights pass, it lingers longer in the sky and its light grows, until after two weeks it becomes a full, complete disk. Once full, it begins to wane again, growing thinner each night until it returns to its first shape and draws closer to the sun. The just God has ordained the moon's nature this way, and for as long as the world lasts, it will turn by this same law.

A prose synopsis, not a translation of the verse. Translated from the Persian summary.