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  • آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
  • That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).
  • بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
  • Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;
  • کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
  • For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.
  • بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف 2985
  • Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words;
  • لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
  • But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.
  • هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
  • This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.
  • هر که پایان‌بین‌تر او مسعودتر ** جدتر او کارد که افزون دید بر
  • The more one descries the end, the more blessed is he: the greater one sees the crop (to be), the more zealously he sows,
  • زانک داند کین جهان کاشتن ** هست بهر محشر و برداشتن
  • Because he knows that this world of sowing is for the sake of the (Last) Congregation and (for the sake of) gathering in (the harvest).
  • هیچ عقدی بهر عین خود نبود ** بلک از بهر مقام ربح و سود 2990
  • No contract (of sale) was (ever made) for the sake of itself; nay, but for the sake of (being in) the position of (making) gain and profit.
  • هیچ نبود منکری گر بنگری ** منکری‌اش بهر عین منکری
  • There is no disbeliever, if you look (carefully), whose disbelief is for the sake of the disbelief itself;