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  • جهد کن تا مزد طاعت در رسد ** بر مطیعان آنگهت آید حسد
  • Endeavour that the wages for obedience (to God) may arrive: then you will envy the obedient.
  • ائتیا کرها مقلد گشته را ** ائتیا طوعا صفا بسرشته را 4590
  • (The command) come against your will is for him that has become a blind follower (of religion); come willingly is for him that is moulded of sincerity.
  • این محب حق ز بهر علتی ** و آن دگر را بی غرض خود خلتی
  • The former loves God for the sake of some (secondary) cause, while the other hath indeed a pure disinterested love.
  • این محب دایه لیک از بهر شیر ** و آن دگر دل داده بهر این ستیر
  • The former loves the Nurse, but for the sake of the milk, while the other has given his heart for the sake of this Veiled One.
  • طفل را از حسن او آگاه نه ** غیر شیر او را ازو دلخواه نه
  • The child (the blind follower) hath no knowledge of Her beauty: he hath no desire of Her in his heart except for milk,
  • و آن دگر خود عاشق دایه بود ** بی غرض در عشق یک‌رایه بود
  • While the other is, truly, the lover of the Nurse: he is disinterested, single-minded in (passionate) love.
  • پس محب حق باومید و بترس ** دفتر تقلید می‌خواند بدرس 4595
  • Hence he that loves God because of hope and fear reads studiously the book of blind conformity,
  • و آن محب حق ز بهر حق کجاست ** که ز اغراض و ز علتها جداست
  • While he that loves God for God's sake—where is he? for he is apart from (all) self-interests and (secondary) causes.
  • گر چنین و گر چنان چون طالبست ** جذب حق او را سوی حق جاذبست
  • Whether he be like this or like that, inasmuch as he is a seeker (of God), God's attraction is drawing him towards God.
  • گر محب حق بود لغیره ** کی ینال دائما من خیره
  • Whether he love God for something other than He, that he may continually partake of His good,