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کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست
- (Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.
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کار عارف راست کاو نه احول است ** چشم او بر کشتهای اول است
- That which matters belongs to the knower (of God), for he is not squinting: his eye is (fixed) upon the things first sown.
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آن چه گندم کاشتندش و آن چه جو ** چشم او آن جاست روز و شب گرو
- That which was sown as wheat (good) or as barley (relatively evil)—day and night his eye is fastened on that place (where it was sown).
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آنچ آبست است شب جز آن نزاد ** حیلهها و مکرها باد است باد
- Night gave birth to nothing but what she was pregnant withal: designs and plots are wind, (empty) wind.
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کی کند دل خوش به حیلتهای گش ** آن که بیند حیلهی حق بر سرش 1055
- How should he please his heart with fair designs who sees the design of God (prevailing) over them?
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او درون دام دامی مینهد ** جان تو نه این جهد نه آن جهد
- He is within the snare (of God) and is laying a snare: by your life, neither that (snare) will escape (destruction) nor will this (man).
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گر بروید ور بریزد صد گیاه ** عاقبت بر روید آن کشتهی اله
- Though (in the meanwhile) a hundred herbs grow and fade, there will grow up at last that which God has sown.
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کشت نو کارید بر کشت نخست ** این دوم فانی است و آن اول درست
- He (the cunning man) sowed new seed over the first seed; (but) this second (seed) is passing away, and (only) the first is sound (and enduring).
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تخم اول کامل و بگزیده است ** تخم ثانی فاسد و پوسیده است
- The first seed is perfect and choice; the second seed is corrupt and rotten.
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افکن این تدبیر خود را پیش دوست ** گر چه تدبیرت هم از تدبیر اوست 1060
- Cast away this contrivance of yours before the Beloved— though your contrivance indeed is of His contriving.