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3477-3486

  • هر چه اندر ابر ضو بینی و تاب ** آن ز اختر دان و ماه و آفتاب‌‌
  • Whatsoever light and splendour you see in the clouds, know that it comes from the stars and the moon and the sun.
  • چینیان چون از عمل فارغ شدند ** از پی شادی دهلها می‌‌زدند
  • When the Chinese had finished their work, they were beating drums for joy.
  • شه در آمد دید آن جا نقشها ** می‌‌ربود آن عقل را و فهم را
  • The King entered and saw the pictures there: that (sight) was robbing him of his wits and understanding.
  • بعد از آن آمد به سوی رومیان ** پرده را بالا کشیدند از میان‌‌ 3480
  • After that, he came towards the Greeks: they drew up the intervening curtain.
  • عکس آن تصویر و آن کردارها ** زد بر این صافی شده دیوارها
  • The reflexion of those (Chinese) pictures and works (of art) struck upon these walls which had been made pure (from stain).
  • هر چه آن جا دید اینجا به نمود ** دیده را از دیده خانه می‌‌ربود
  • All that he had seen there (in the Chinese room) seemed more beautiful here: ’twas snatching the eye from the socket.
  • رومیان آن صوفیانند ای پدر ** بی‌‌ز تکرار و کتاب و بی‌‌هنر
  • The Greeks, O father, are the Súfís: (they are) without (independent of) study and books and erudition,
  • لیک صیقل کرده‌‌اند آن سینه‌‌ها ** پاک از آز و حرص و بخل و کینه‌‌ها
  • But they have burnished their breasts (and made them) pure from greed and cupidity and avarice and hatreds.
  • آن صفای آینه وصف دل است ** کاو نقوش بی‌‌عدد را قابل است‌‌ 3485
  • That purity of the mirror is the attribute of the heart (which) receives the infinite form.
  • صورت بی‌‌صورت بی‌‌حد غیب ** ز آینه‌‌ی دل تافت بر موسی ز جیب‌‌
  • That Moses (the perfect saint) holds in his bosom the formless infinite form of the Unseen (reflected) from the mirror of his heart.