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اسب بیراکب چه داند رسم راه ** شاه باید تا بداند شاه راه
- How should the riderless horse know the marks of the road? The King is needed (to ride it) in order that it may know the King's road.
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سوی حسی رو که نورش راکب است ** حس را آن نور نیکو صاحب است
- Go towards a sense on which the Light is riding: that Light is a good companion for the sense.
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نور حس را نور حق تزیین بود ** معنی نور علی نور این بود
- The Light of God is an ornament to the light of sense: this is the meaning of light upon light.
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نور حسی میکشد سوی ثری ** نور حقش میبرد سوی علی
- The light of sense draws (a man) towards earth; the Light of God bears him aloft,
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ز انکه محسوسات دونتر عالمی است ** نور حق دریا و حس چون شبنمی است 1295
- Because sensible things are a lower world: the Light of God is (as) the sea, and the sense as a dew-drop.
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لیک پیدا نیست آن راکب بر او ** جز به آثار و به گفتار نکو
- But that which rides on it (on the sense) is not manifested save by good effects and words.
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نور حسی کاو غلیظ است و گران ** هست پنهان در سواد دیدهگان
- The sensuous light, which is gross and heavy, is hidden in the black of the eyes.
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چون که نور حس نمیبینی ز چشم ** چون ببینی نور آن دینی ز چشم
- Inasmuch as you are not seeing the light of sense with (your) eye, how should you see the light of that religious one (the saint) with (your) eye?
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نور حس با این غلیظی مختفی است ** چون خفی نبود ضیایی کان صفی است
- The light of sense is hidden notwithstanding this grossness: how (then) should not that radiance be hidden which is pure (and subtle)?
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این جهان چون خس به دست باد غیب ** عاجزی پیش گرفت و داد غیب 1300
- This world, like straws in the hand (control) of the wind (which is) the (world) unseen, is a helpless object before the power and sway of the Unseen