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دل ز دانشها بشستند این فریق ** زانک این دانش نداند آن طریق
- This company washed their hearts (clean) of (the exoteric) kinds of knowledge, because this knowledge does not know that Way.
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دانشی باید که اصلش زان سرست ** زانک هر فرعی به اصلش رهبرست
- (In order to tread this Way) one needs a knowledge whereof the root is Yonder, inasmuch as every branch is a guide to its root.
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هر پری بر عرض دریا کی پرد ** تا لدن علم لدنی می‌برد 1125
- How should every wing fly across the breadth of the Sea? (Only) the esoteric knowledge will bear (thee) to the Presence (of God).
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پس چرا علمی بیاموزی به مرد ** کش بباید سینه را زان پاک کرد
- Why, then, should you teach a man the knowledge of which it behoves him to purify his breast?
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پس مجو پیشی ازین سر لنگ باش ** وقت وا گشتن تو پیش آهنگ باش
- Therefore do not seek to be in front: be lame on this side, and be the leader at the moment of return.
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آخرون السابقون باش ای ظریف ** بر شجر سابق بود میوه‌ی طریف
- O clever one, be thou (according to the Prophet's saying, “We are) the hindmost and the foremost”: the fresh fruit is prior to the tree.
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گرچه میوه آخر آید در وجود ** اولست او زانک او مقصود بود
- Although the fruit comes last into being, it is the first, because it was the object.
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چون ملایک گوی لا علم لنا ** تا بگیرد دست تو علمتنا 1130
- Say, like the angels, “We have no knowledge,” to the end that “Thou hast taught us” may take thy hand (come to thy aid).
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گر درین مکتب ندانی تو هجا ** همچو احمد پری از نور حجی
- If in this school thou dost not know the alphabet, (yet) thou art filled, like Ahmad (Mohammed), with the light of Reason.
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گر نباشی نامدار اندر بلاد ** گم نه‌ای الله اعلم بالعباد
- If thou art not famous in the world, (yet) thou art not lost: God knoweth best concerning His servants.