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  • جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران 3640
  • Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs—
  • هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان
  • Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;
  • هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید
  • (Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).
  • جزو عقل این از آن عقل کلست ** جنبش این سایه زان شاخ گلست
  • The particular intelligence of this (disciple) is derived from that Universal Intelligence: the motion of this shadow is derived from that Rose-bough.
  • سایه‌اش فانی شود آخر درو ** پس بداند سر میل و جست و جو
  • His (the disciple's) shadow disappears at last in him (the Master); then he knows the secret of his inclination and search and seeking.
  • سایه‌ی شاخ دگر ای نیکبخت ** کی بجنبد گر نجنبد این درخت 3645
  • How should the shadow of the other's (the disciple's) bough move, O fortunate one, if this Tree move not?
  • باز از حیوان سوی انسانیش ** می‌کشید آن خالقی که دانیش
  • Again, the Creator, whom thou knowest, was leading him (Man) from the animal (state) towards humanity.
  • هم‌چنین اقلیم تا اقلیم رفت ** تا شد اکنون عاقل و دانا و زفت
  • Thus did he advance from clime to clime (from one world of being to another), till he has now become intelligent and wise and mighty.
  • عقلهای اولینش یاد نیست ** هم ازین عقلش تحول کردنیست
  • He hath no remembrance of his former intelligences (souls); from this (human) intelligence also there is a migration to be made by him,
  • تا رهد زین عقل پر حرص و طلب ** صد هزاران عقل بیند بوالعجب
  • That he may escape from this intelligence full of greed and self-seeking and may behold a hundred thousand intelligences most marvellous.