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  • None but God was the confidant of their secret, their sighs were breathed to Heaven alone.
  • راز را غیر خدا محرم نبود  ** آه را جز آسمان هم‌دم نبود 
  • They were using certain mystical terms among themselves in order to convey information.
  • اصطلاحاتی میان هم‌دگر  ** داشتندی بهر ایراد خبر 
  • The vulgar have learned this birds' language and (by means of it) have acquired prestige and authority. 4010
  • زین لسان الطیر عام آموختند  ** طمطراق و سروری اندوختند 
  • That terminology is (only) the image (imitation) of the bird's voice: the uninitiated man is ignorant of the (inward) state of the birds.
  • صورت آواز مرغست آن کلام  ** غافلست از حال مرغان مرد خام 
  • Where is the Solomon who knows the birds' song? The demon, though he seize the kingdom (of Solomon), is an alien.
  • کو سلیمانی که داند لحن طیر  ** دیو گرچه ملک گیرد هست غیر 
  • The demon in the likeness of Solomon stood (in Solomon's place): he knows how to deceive, but he does not possess (the knowledge denoted by the words) we have been taught.
  • دیو بر شبه سلیمان کرد ایست  ** علم مکرش هست و علمناش نیست 
  • Inasmuch as Solomon was rejoiced exceedingly by (the favour of) God, he had a birds' language (derived) from we have been taught.
  • چون سلیمان از خدا بشاش بود  ** منطق الطیری ز علمناش بود 
  • Understand that you are a bird of the (common) air because you have not beheld the esoteric birds. 4015
  • تو از آن مرغ هوایی فهم کن  ** که ندیدستی طیور من لدن 
  • The home of the Símurghs is beyond (Mt) Qáf: it is not (like) a hand-loom (easily accessible) to any imagination,
  • جای سیمرغان بود آن سوی قاف  ** هر خیالی را نباشد دست‌باف 
  • But only to the imagination that beholds it by chance and then, after the vision, is parted (from it)—
  • جز خیالی را که دید آن اتفاق  ** آنگهش بعدالعیان افتد فراق