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غیر تو هر چه خوش است و ناخوش است ** آدمی سوز است و عین آتش است
- Excepting Thee (alone), whatsoever is sweet or unsweet is man-destroying and the essence of fire.
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هر که را آتش پناه و پشت شد ** هم مجوسی گشت و هم زردشت شد
- Any one to whom fire is a refuge and support becomes both a Magian and a Zoroaster.
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کل شی‌‌ء ما خلا الله باطل ** إن فضل الله غیم هاطل
- Everything except Allah is vain: verily the grace of Allah is a cloud pouring abundantly and continually.
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باز گشتن به حکایت امیر المؤمنین علی کرم الله وجهه و مسامحت کردن او با خونی خویش
- Returning to the story of ‘Alí—may God honour his person!— and how generously he behaved to his murderer.
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باز رو سوی علی و خونی‌‌اش ** و آن کرم با خونی و افزونی‌‌اش
- Go back to ‘Alí and his murderer, and the kindness he showed to the murderer, and his superiority (moral and spiritual excellence).
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گفت دشمن را همی‌‌می‌‌بینم به چشم ** روز و شب بر وی ندارم هیچ خشم 3925
- He said, “Day and night I see the enemy with my eyes, (but) I have no anger against him,
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ز آنکه مرگم همچو من خوش آمده ست ** مرگ من در بعث چنگ اندر زده ست
- Because death has become sweet as manna to me: my death has laid fast hold of resurrection.”
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مرگ بی‌‌مرگی بود ما را حلال ** برگ بی‌‌برگی بود ما را نوال
- The death of deathlessness is lawful to us, the provision of unprovidedness is a bounty to us.
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ظاهرش مرگ و به باطن زندگی ** ظاهرش ابتر نهان پایندگی
- ’Tis death outwardly but life inwardly: apparently ’tis a cutting-off (decease), in secret (in reality) ’tis permanence (life without end).
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در رحم زادن جنین را رفتن است ** در جهان او را ز نو بشکفتن است
- To the embryo in the womb birth is a going (to another state of existence): in the world it (the embryo) blossoms anew.
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چون مرا سوی اجل عشق و هواست ** نهی لا تلقوا بأيدیکم مراست 3930
- “Since I have intense love and longing for death, the prohibition do not cast yourselves (into destruction) is (meant) for me,