Tie The Camel's Legs

Trust in God, yet tie the camel's legs
Hear the adage, 'The worker is the friend of God;
Through trust in Providence neglect not to use means.
Go, practise trust with self-exertion,
Exert yourself to attain your objects, bit by bit.
In order to succeed, strive and exert yourselves;
If you strive not for your objects, ye are fools.

Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi
From: Charles F. Horne, ed., The Sacred Books and Early Literature of the East, Vol. VIII pp. 111-130.