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ور بدی دردیش زان نام بلند ** درد او در حال گشتی سودمند
- And if she were in pain, her pain would immediately be turned into profit by that exalted name.
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وقت سرما بودی او را پوستین ** این کند در عشق نام دوست این
- In cold weather it was a fur to her. This, this (is what) the Beloved's name can do (when one is) in love.
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عام می‌خوانند هر دم نام پاک ** این عمل نکند چو نبود عشقناک
- The vulgar are always pronouncing the Holy Name, (but) it does not do this work (for them) since they are not endowed with (true) love.
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آنچ عیسی کرده بود از نام هو ** می‌شدی پیدا ورا از نام او
- That (miracle) which Jesus had wrought by (pronouncing) the Name of Hú (God) was manifested to her through the name of him (Joseph).
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چونک با حق متصل گردید جان ** ذکر آن اینست و ذکر اینست آن 4040
- When the soul has been united with God, to speak of that (God) is (to speak of) this (soul), and to speak of this (soul) is (to speak of) that (God).
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خالی از خود بود و پر از عشق دوست ** پس ز کوزه آن تلابد که دروست
- She was empty of self and filled with love for her friend (Joseph), and (as the proverb says), “A pot drips what is in it.”
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خنده بوی زعفران وصل داد ** گریه بوهای پیاز آن بعاد
- The scent of the saffron of union produces (happy) laughter; the smell of the onion of absence (produces) tears.
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هر یکی را هست در دل صد مراد ** این نباشد مذهب عشق و وداد
- Every (other) one has in his heart a hundred objects of desire, (but) this is not the way of love and fondness.
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یار آمد عشق را روز آفتاب ** آفتاب آن روی را هم‌چون نقاب
- Love's sun in the day-time is the (Face of the) Beloved: the sun is as a veil over that Face.
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آنک نشناسد نقاب از روی یار ** عابد الشمس است دست از وی بدار 4045
- He that does not know (distinguish) the veil from the Face of the Beloved is a sun-worshipper: keep thy hand off (keep thyself aloof) from him.