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پاسبان من عنایات وی است ** هر کجا که من روم شه در پی است
- His favours keep watch over me; wherever I go, the King is (following) behind.
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در دل سلطان خیال من مقیم ** بیخیال من دل سلطان سقیم
- The phantasy of me is abiding in the King's heart: sick (would be) the King's heart without the phantasy of me.
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چون بپراند مرا شه در روش ** میپرم بر اوج دل چون پرتوش
- When the King bids me fly in His Way I fly up to the heart's zenith, like His beams.
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همچو ماه و آفتابی میپرم ** پردههای آسمانها میدرم
- I fly as a moon and sun, I rend the curtains of the skies.
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روشنی عقلها از فکرتم ** انفطار آسمان از فطرتم 1160
- The light of intellects is from my thought; the bursting forth of heaven (into existence) is from my original nature.
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بازم و حیران شود در من هما ** جغد که بود تا بداند سر ما
- I am a falcon, and (yet) the humá becomes lost in amazement at me: who is an owl, that it should know my secret?
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شه برای من ز زندان یاد کرد ** صد هزاران بسته را آزاد کرد
- For my sake the King bethought him of the prison (this world), and set free hundreds of thousands of those in bondage.
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یک دمم با جغدها دمساز کرد ** از دم من جغدها را باز کرد
- He made me familiar with the owls for a moment, and by means of my breath (words) he made the owls (to be) falcons.
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ای خنک جغدی که در پرواز من ** فهم کرد از نیک بختی راز من
- Oh, happy (is) the owl that in my (soaring) flight (towards God) had the good fortune to apprehend my mystery.
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در من آویزید تا نازان شوید ** گر چه جغدانید شهبازان شوید 1165
- Cling to me, that ye may become exultant (enjoying bliss), (and that) ye may become royal falcons, although ye are owls.