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من نیم در عهد ایمان بت‌پرست ** بت بر آن بت‌پرست اولیترست
- I am not an idolater in the epoch of the true Faith: ’tis more fit that the idol should be in the hands of the idolater.”
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چونک آوردش رسول آن پهلوان ** گشت عاشق بر جمالش آن زمان
- When the envoy brought her (to him), the captain straightway fell in love with her beauty.
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عشق بحری آسمان بر وی کفی ** چون زلیخا در هوای یوسفی
- Love is an (infinite) ocean, on which the heavens are (but) a flake of foam: (they are distraught) like Zalíkhá in desire for a Joseph.
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دور گردونها ز موج عشق دان ** گر نبودی عشق بفسردی جهان
- Know that the wheeling heavens are turned by waves of Love: were it not for Love, the world would be frozen (inanimate).
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کی جمادی محو گشتی در نبات ** کی فدای روح گشتی نامیات 3855
- How would an inorganic thing disappear (by change) into a plant? How would vegetive things sacrifice themselves to become (endowed with) spirit?
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روح کی گشتی فدای آن دمی ** کز نسیمش حامله شد مریمی
- How would the spirit sacrifice itself for the sake of that Breath by the waft whereof a Mary was made pregnant?
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هر یکی بر جا ترنجیدی چو یخ ** کی بدی پران و جویان چون ملخ
- Each one (of them) would be (as) stiff and immovable as ice: how should they be flying and seeking like locusts?
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ذره ذره عاشقان آن کمال ** می‌شتابد در علو هم‌چون نهال
- Every mote is in love with that Perfection and hastening upward like a sapling.
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سبح لله هست اشتابشان ** تنقیه‌ی تن می‌کنند از بهر جان
- Their haste is (saying implicitly) “Glory to God!” They are purifying the body for the sake of the spirit.
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پهلوان چه را چو ره پنداشته ** شوره‌اش خوش آمده حب کاشته 3860
- The captain deemed (what was really) a pit to be like a (safe) road: to him the sterile soil appeared goodly, (so) he sowed seed (in it).