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  • هم بر آن در باشدش باش و قرار ** کفر دارد کرد غیری اختیار
  • Still will he stay and abide at that door: he will deem it ingratitude to prefer another.
  • ور سگی آید غریبی روز و شب ** آن سگانش می‌کنند آن دم ادب 290
  • And (again), if a strange dog come by day or night (to a quarter of the town), the dogs there will at once teach him a lesson,
  • که برو آنجا که اول منزلست ** حق آن نعمت گروگان دلست
  • Saying, “Begone to the place that is thy first lodging: obligation for that kindness is the heart's pledge (which it must redeem).”
  • می‌گزندش که برو بر جای خویش ** حق آن نعمت فرو مگذار بیش
  • They will bite him, saying, “Begone to thy place, do not any more leave (unpaid) the obligation for that kindness.”
  • از در دل و اهل دل آب حیات ** چند نوشیدی و وا شد چشمهات
  • From the door of the spirit and spiritual men how long didst thou drink the water of life, and thine eyes were opened!
  • بس غذای سکر و وجد و بی‌خودی ** از در اهل دلان بر جان زدی
  • Much food from the door of the spiritual, (in the form) of (mystical) intoxication and ecstasy and selflessness, didst thou cast upon thy soul.
  • باز این در را رها کردی ز حرص ** گرد هر دکان همی‌گردی ز حرص 295
  • Afterwards, through greed, thou didst abandon that door, and (now), through greed, thou art going round about every shop.
  • بر در آن منعمان چرب‌دیگ ** می‌دوی بهر ثرید مردریگ
  • For the sake of worthless tharíd thou art running to the doors of those (worldly) patrons whose pots are (full of) fat.
  • چربش اینجا دان که جان فربه شود ** کار نااومید اینجا به شود
  • Know that here (where the saints abide) the (meaning of) “fat” is that the soul becomes fat (flourishing), and (know that) here the plight of the desperate is made good.
  • جمع آمدن اهل آفت هر صباحی بر در صومعه‌ی عیسی علیه السلام جهت طلب شفا به دعای او
  • How the smitten would assemble every morning at the door of the (monastic) cell of Jesus, on whom be peace, craving to be healed through his prayer.
  • صومعه‌ی عیسیست خوان اهل دل ** هان و هان ای مبتلا این در مهل
  • The table of the spiritual is (like) the cell of Jesus: O afflicted one, beware, beware! Do not forsake this door!