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گر بخواهد رفت سوی زهر و مار ** ور بخواهد رفت سوی اعتبار
- If it (the heart) will, they turn towards poison and the snake, and if it will, they turn to (edifying) consideration.
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گر بخواهد سوی محسوسات رفت ** ور بخواهد سوی ملبوسات رفت
- If it will, they turn to sensuous things, and if it will, they turn to things clothed (in the forms of thought and phantasy).
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گر بخواهد سوی کلیات راند ** ور بخواهد حبس جزویات ماند 3565
- If it will, they advance towards universals, and if it will, they remain in bondage to particulars.
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همچنین هر پنج حس چون نایزه ** بر مراد و امر دل شد جایزه
- Similarly all the five senses are passing (in movement) according to the will and command of the heart, like the spool (in the hand of a weaver).
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هر طرف که دل اشارت کردشان ** می‌‌رود هر پنج حس دامن کشان
- All the five senses are moving and trailing their skirts (sweeping along) in whatever direction the heart indicates to them.
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دست و پا در امر دل اندر ملا ** همچو اندر دست موسی آن عصا
- Hand and foot are plainly under command of the heart, like the staff in the hand of Moses.
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دل بخواهد پا در آید زو به رقص ** یا گریزد سوی افزونی ز نقص
- If the heart will, at once the foot begins to dance, or flees from defect towards increase.
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دل بخواهد دست آید در حساب ** با اصابع تا نویسد او کتاب 3570
- If the heart will, the hand comes to terms with the fingers to write a book.
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دست در دست نهانی مانده است ** او درون تن را برون بنشانده است
- The hand remains in (the grasp of) a hidden hand: it (the hidden hand) within has set the body outside (as its instrument).
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گر بخواهد بر عدو ماری شود ** ور بخواهد بر ولی یاری شود
- If it (the hidden hand) will, it (the external hand) becomes a snake to the enemy; and if it will, it becomes a helper to the friend;