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الف ما انوار با ظلمات چیست ** چون تواند نور با ظلمات زیست
- (We said), Why (this) friendship in us, who are light, with darkness? How can light live with darkness?
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آدما آن الف از بوی تو بود ** ز آن که جسمت را زمین بد تار و پود
- O Adam, that friendship was owing to the scent of thee, because earth was the woof and warp of thy body.
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جسم خاکت را از اینجا بافتند ** نور پاکت را در اینجا یافتند
- From this place (the earth) thy earthly body was woven, in this place thy pure light was found.
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این که جان ما ز روحت یافته ست ** پیش پیش از خاک آن می‌‌تافته ست 2665
- This (light) that our souls have obtained from thy spirit shone erstwhile from the dust.
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در زمین بودیم و غافل از زمین ** غافل از گنجی که در وی بد دفین
- We were in the earth, and heedless of the earth, heedless of the treasure that lay buried there.
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چون سفر فرمود ما را ز آن مقام ** تلخ شد ما را از آن تحویل کام
- When He (God) bade us journey from that place of abode our palates were soured (we were bitterly grieved) by the change,
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تا که حجتها همی‌‌گفتیم ما ** که بجای ما کی آید ای خدا
- So that we were arguing (and saying), ‘O God, who will come in our stead?
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نور این تسبیح و این تهلیل را ** می‌‌فروشی بهر قال و قیل را
- Wilt Thou sell the splendour of the praise with which we glorify and magnify Thee for babble and palaver?’
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حکم حق گسترد بهر ما بساط ** که بگویید از طریق انبساط 2670
- The decree of God spread for us the carpet (of indulgence), (and He said), ‘Speak ye, in the way of boldness
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هر چه آید بر زبانتان بی‌‌حذر ** همچو طفلان یگانه با پدر
- (And) without fear, whatever comes upon your tongues, like only children with their father;