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  • این برون از آفتاب و از سها ** و اندرون از عکس انوار علی‌‌ 1125
  • This outward (light) is (derived) from the sun and from Suhá, while the inward (light) is from the reflexion of the beams of (Divine) Glory.
  • نور نور چشم خود نور دل است ** نور چشم از نور دلها حاصل است‌‌
  • The light which gives light to the eye is in truth the light of the heart: the light of the eye is produced by the light of hearts.
  • باز نور نور دل نور خداست ** کاو ز نور عقل و حس پاک و جداست‌‌
  • Again, the light which gives light to the heart is the Light of God, which is pure and separate from the light of intellect and sense.
  • شب نبد نوری ندیدی رنگها ** پس به ضد نور پیدا شد ترا
  • At night there was no light and thou didst not see the colours; then it (the light) was made manifest by the opposite of light (by darkness).
  • دیدن نور است آن گه دید رنگ ** وین به ضد نور دانی بی‌‌درنگ‌‌
  • (First) comes the seeing of light, then the seeing of colour; and this thou knowest immediately by the opposite of light (darkness).
  • رنج و غم را حق پی آن آفرید ** تا بدین ضد خوش دلی آید پدید 1130
  • God created pain and sorrow for the purpose that happiness might be made manifest by means of this opposite.
  • پس نهانیها به ضد پیدا شود ** چون که حق را نیست ضد پنهان بود
  • Hidden things, then, are manifested by means of their opposite; since God hath no opposite, He is hidden;
  • که نظر بر نور بود آن گه به رنگ ** ضد به ضد پیدا بود چون روم و زنگ‌‌
  • For the sight fell (first) on the light, then on the colour: opposite is made manifest by opposite, like Greeks and Ethiopians.
  • پس به ضد نور دانستی تو نور ** ضد ضد را می‌‌نماید در صدور
  • Therefore thou knewest light by its opposite: opposite reveals opposite in (the process of) coming forth.
  • نور حق را نیست ضدی در وجود ** تا به ضد او را توان پیدا نمود
  • The Light of God hath no opposite in (all) existence, that by means of that opposite it should be possible to make Him manifest: