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  • و آن صف پیش از ضعیفی بصر ** تاب نارد روشنایی بیشتر
  • And that front rank, from weakness of sight, cannot support the light that is more advanced.
  • روشنیی کاو حیات اول است ** رنج جان و فتنه‏ی این احول است‏ 825
  • The light that is the life of the first (highest rank) is heartache and tribulation to this squinter;
  • احولیها اندک اندک کم شود ** چون ز هفصد بگذرد او یم شود
  • (But) the squintnesses, little by little, grow less, and when he passes beyond the seven hundred (veils), he becomes the Sea.
  • آتشی کاصلاح آهن یا زر است ** کی صلاح آبی و سیب تر است‏
  • The fire that does good to iron or gold—how is it good for fresh quinces and apples?
  • سیب و آبی خامیی دارد خفیف ** نه چو آهن تابشی خواهد لطیف‏
  • The apple and quince have (only) a slight crudity: unlike iron, they want a gentle heat;
  • لیک آهن را لطیف آن شعله‏هاست ** کاو جذوب تابش آن اژدهاست‏
  • But those flames are (too) gentle for the iron, for it is (eagerly) drawing to (itself) the heat of that (fiery) dragon.
  • هست آن آهن فقیر سخت کش ** زیر پتک و آتش است او سرخ و خوش‏ 830
  • That iron is the dervish who bears hardship (self-mortification): under the hammer and the fire he is red and happy.
  • حاجب آتش بود بی‏واسطه ** در دل آتش رود بی‏رابطه‏
  • He is the chamberlain of the fire (and) in immediate touch (with it): he goes into the heart of the fire without (any) link (between the fire and him).
  • بی‏حجاب آب و فرزندان آب ** پختگی ز آتش نیابند و خطاب‏
  • Without some screen, water and water's children get no cooking or conversation from the fire.
  • واسطه دیگی بود یا تابه‏ای ** همچو پا را در روش پا تابه‏ای‏
  • The medium is a pot or a pan—as (the medium) for the foot in walking (is) a sock (shoe)—