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ور بود صورت حقیر و ناپذیر ** چون بود خلقش نکو در پاش میر
- And though the form be despicable and unpleasing, (yet) when his (that person's) disposition is good, die at his feet!
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صورت ظاهر فنا گردد بدان ** عالم معنی بماند جاودان 1020
- Know that the outward form passes away, (but) the world of reality remains for ever.
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چند بازی عشق با نقش سبو ** بگذر از نقش سبو رو آب جو
- How long will you play at loving the shape of the jug? Leave the shape of the jug; go, seek the water.
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صورتش دیدی ز معنی غافلی ** از صدف دری گزین گر عاقلی
- You have seen its (outward) form, you are unaware of the reality; pick out from the shell a pearl, if you are wise.
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این صدفهای قوالب در جهان ** گر چه جمله زندهاند از بحر جان
- These shells of bodies in the world, though they all are living by (grace of) the Sea of Soul—
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لیک اندر هر صدف نبود گهر ** چشم بگشا در دل هر یک نگر
- Yet there is not a pearl in every shell: open your eyes and look into the heart of each one,
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کان چه دارد وین چه دارد میگزین ** ز انکه کمیاب است آن در ثمین 1025
- And pick out what that one has and what this, because that costly pearl is seldom found.
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گر به صورت میروی کوهی به شکل ** در بزرگی هست صد چندان که لعل
- If you go (turn your attention) to the form, by external appearance a mountain is a hundred times as much as a ruby in bigness;
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هم به صورت دست و پا و پشم تو ** هست صد چندان که نقش چشم تو
- Also, in respect of form, your hands and feet and hair are a hundred times as much as the contour of the eye;
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لیک پوشیده نباشد بر تو این ** کز همه اعضا دو چشم آمد گزین
- But this (fact) is not hidden from you, that the two eyes are the choicest of all (your) members.