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این خردها چون مصابیح انورست ** بیست مصباح از یک روشن‌ترست
- These (human) intellects are luminous like lamps: twenty lamps are brighter than one.
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بوک مصباحی فتد اندر میان ** مشتعل گشته ز نور آسمان
- There may happen to be amongst them a lamp that has become aflame with the light of Heaven,
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غیرت حق پرده‌ای انگیختست ** سفلی و علوی به هم آمیختست 2615
- (For) the jealousy of God has produced a veil (of concealment) and has mingled the low and the lofty together.
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گفت سیروا می‌طلب اندر جهان ** بخت و روزی را همی‌کن امتحان
- He hath said, “Travel”: always be seeking in the world and trying your fortune and (destined) lot.
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در مجالس می‌طلب اندر عقول ** آن چنان عقلی که بود اندر رسول
- In (all) assembly-places always be seeking amidst the intellects such an intellect as is (found) in the Prophet,
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زانک میراث از رسول آنست و بس ** که ببیند غیبها از پیش و پس
- For the only heritage from the Prophet is that (intellect) which perceives the unseen things before and behind (future and past).
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در بصرها می‌طلب هم آن بصر ** که نتابد شرح آن این مختصر
- Amidst the (inward) eyes, too, always be seeking that (inward) eye which this epitome has not the power to describe.
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بهر این کردست منع آن با شکوه ** از ترهب وز شدن خلوت به کوه 2620
- Hence the majestic (Prophet) has forbidden monkery and going to live as a hermit in the mountains,
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تا نگردد فوت این نوع التقا ** کان نظر بختست و اکسیر بقا
- In order that this kind of meeting (with saints) should not be lost; for to be looked on by them is fortune and an elixir of immortality.
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در میان صالحان یک اصلحیست ** بر سر توقیعش از سلطان صحیست
- Amongst the righteous there is one (who is) the most righteous: on his diploma (is inscribed) by the Sultan's hand a sahh,