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گر چه پنهان خار در آب است پست ** چون که در تو می‌‌خلد دانی که هست
- Although the thorn is hidden low in the water, you know it is there, since it is pricking you.
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خار خار وحیها و وسوسه ** از هزاران کس بود نی یک کسه
- The pricks of (angelic) inspirations and (satanic) temptations are from thousands of beings, not (only) from one.
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باش تا حسهای تو مبدل شود ** تا ببینیشان و مشکل حل شود
- Wait (patiently) for your (bodily) senses to be transmuted, so that you may see them (the hidden beings), and the difficulty may be solved,
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تا سخنهای کیان رد کرده‌‌ای ** تا کیان را سرور خود کرده‌‌ای 1040
- So that (you may see) whose words you have rejected and whom you have made your captain.
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باز طلبیدن نخجیران از خرگوش سر اندیشه‌‌ی او را
- How the beasts requested the hare to tell the secret of his thought.
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بعد از آن گفتند کای خرگوش چست ** در میان آر آن چه در ادراک تست
- Afterwards they said, “O nimble hare, communicate what is in thy apprehension.
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ای که با شیری تو در پیچیده‌‌ای ** باز گو رایی که اندیشیده‌‌ای
- O thou who hast grappled with a lion, declare the plan which thou hast thought of.
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مشورت ادراک و هشیاری دهد ** عقلها مر عقل را یاری دهد
- Counsel gives perception and understanding: the mind is helped by (other) minds.
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گفت پیغمبر بکن ای رایزن ** مشورت کالمستشار موتمن
- The Prophet said, ‘O adviser, take counsel (with the trustworthy), for he whose counsel is sought is trusted.’”
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منع کردن خرگوش راز را از ایشان
- How the hare withheld the secret from them.
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گفت هر رازی نشاید باز گفت ** جفت طاق آید گهی گه طاق جفت 1045
- He said, “One ought not to say forth every secret: sometimes the even number turns out to be odd, and sometimes the odd number to be even.”
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از صفا گر دم زنی با آینه ** تیره گردد زود با ما آینه
- If from guilelessness you breathe words to a mirror, the mirror at once becomes dim to us.