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  • جسم احمد را تعلق بد بدآن ** این تغیر آن تن باشد بدان
  • The body of Ahmad was liable to that (corruption): know that this corruption belongs (only) to the body,
  • هم‌چو رنجوری و هم‌چون خواب و درد ** جان ازین اوصاف باشد پاک و فرد
  • Such as sickness and sleep and pain; the spirit is untouched by these affections and wholly detached (from them).
  • خود نتانم ور بگويم وصف جان ** زلزله افتد در اين كون و مكان
  • Indeed I cannot describe the spirit, and if I describe it, quaking would fall upon this (world of) phenomenal existence and spatiality.
  • روبهش گر یک دمی آشفته بود ** شیر جان مانا که آن دم خفته بود
  • If its fox (the body) was perturbed for a moment, belike the lion-spirit was then asleep.
  • خفته بود آن شیر کز خوابست پاک ** اینت شیر نرمسار سهمناک 3795
  • That lion which is immune from sleep was (apparently) asleep: lo, a complaisant terrible lion!
  • خفته سازد شیر خود را آنچنان ** که تمامش مرده دانند این سگان
  • The lion feigns to be asleep so (well) that those curs think he is quite dead;
  • ورنه در عالم کرا زهره بدی ** که ربودی از ضعیفی تربدی
  • Else, who in the world would dare to rob a poor man (even) of a grain of turpeth mineral?
  • کف احمد زان نظر مخدوش گشت ** بحر او از مهر کف پرجوش گشت
  • The foam (body) of Ahmad was torn (powerfully affected) by that sight (of Gabriel), (but) his sea (spirit) surged up (displayed itself in action) for love of the foam.
  • مه همه کفست معطی نورپاش ** ماه را گر کف نباشد گو مباش
  • The moon (the spirit of Ahmad) is entirely a bounteous light-diffusing hand: if the moon have no hand (with which to bestow light), let it have none!
  • احمد ار بگشاید آن پر جلیل ** تا ابد بیهوش ماند جبرئیل 3800
  • If Ahmad should display that glorious pinion (his spiritual nature), Gabriel would remain dumbfounded unto everlasting.