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چون که غیب و غایب و رو پوش به ** پس لبان بر بند لب خاموش به
- “Inasmuch as the unseen and the absent and the veil are better, close thy lips, and the lip is better silent.
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ای برادر دست وا دار از سخن ** خود خدا پیدا کند علم لدن
- O brother, refrain from speech: God himself will make manifest the knowledge that is with Him (in His possession).
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بس بود خورشید را رویش گواه ** أی شی‌‌ء أعظم الشاهد إله
- Witness enough for the sun is its face: what thing is the greatest witness (of all)? God.”
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نه بگویم چون قرین شد در بیان ** هم خدا و هم ملک هم عالمان
- “Nay, speak I will, since both God and the angels and the men of learning are allied in setting forth (this truth).
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یشهد الله و الملک و اهل العلوم ** إنه لا رب إلا من یدوم 3645
- God and the angels and those learned in the sciences (of divinity) bear witness that there is no Lord except Him who endureth for ever.”
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چون گواهی داد حق که بود ملک ** تا شود اندر گواهی مشترک
- Since God hath given testimony, who are the angels, that they should be associated in the testimony?
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ز آن که شعشاع حضور آفتاب ** بر نتابد چشم و دلهای خراب
- (They are associated) because unsound (weak) eyes and hearts cannot support the radiance and presence of the Sun,
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چون خفاشی کاو تف خورشید را ** بر نتابد بگسلد اومید را
- Like a bat, which cannot bear the glow of the sun and abandons hope.
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پس ملایک را چو ما هم یار دان ** جلوه گر خورشید را بر آسمان
- Know, then, that the angels, as we also, are helpers (co-witnesses)—displayers of the sun in heaven—
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کاین ضیا ما ز آفتابی یافتیم ** چون خلیفه بر ضعیفان تافتیم 3650
- Who say, “We have derived (our) light from a Sun, we have shone upon the weak, like vicegerents (of a mighty King).”