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صبغة الله نام آن رنگ لطیف ** لعنة الله بوی این رنگ کثیف
- The baptism of God is the name of that subtle colour; the curse of God is the smell of this gross colour.
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آن چه از دریا به دریا می‌‌رود ** از همانجا کامد آن جا می‌‌رود
- That which is of the sea is going to the sea: it is going to the same place whence it came—
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از سر که سیلهای تیز رو ** وز تن ما جان عشق آمیز رو
- From the mountain-top the swift-rushing torrents, and from our body the soul whose motion is mingled with love.
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آتش کردن پادشاه جهود و بت نهادن پهلوی آتش که هر که این بت را سجود کند از آتش برست
- How the Jewish king made a fire and placed an idol beside it, saying, “Whoever bows down to this idol shall escape the fire.”
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آن جهود سگ ببین چه رای کرد ** پهلوی آتش بتی بر پای کرد
- Now see what a plan this currish Jew contrived! He set up an idol beside the fire,
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کان که این بت را سجود آرد برست ** ور نیارد در دل آتش نشست 770
- Saying, “He that bows down to this idol is saved, and if he bow not, he shall sit in the heart of the fire.”
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چون سزای این بت نفس او نداد ** از بت نفسش بتی دیگر بزاد
- Inasmuch as he did not give due punishment to this idol of self, from the idol of his self the other idol was born.
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مادر بتها بت نفس شماست ** ز آن که آن بت مار و این بت اژدهاست
- The idol of your self is the mother of (all) idols, because that (material) idol is (only) a snake, while this (spiritual) idol is a dragon.
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آهن و سنگ است نفس و بت شرار ** آن شرار از آب می‌‌گیرد قرار
- The self is (as) iron and stone (whence fire is produced), while the (material) idol is (as) the sparks: those sparks are quieted (quenched) by water.
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سنگ و آهن ز آب کی ساکن‌‌شود ** آدمی با این دو کی ایمن شود
- (But) how should the stone and iron be allayed by water? How should a man, having these twain, be secure?
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بت سیاه‌‌آبه‌‌ست در کوزه نهان ** نفس مر آب سیه را چشمه دان 775
- The idol is the black water hidden in the jug; know that the self is the fountain.