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این چنین قفل گران را ای ودود ** کی تواند جز که فضل تو گشود
- Who except (Thee in) Thy bounty, O Loving One, can loose such a heavy lock?
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ما ز خود سوی که گردانیم سر ** چون تویی از ما به ما نزدیکتر
- Let us turn our heads from ourselves towards Thee, inasmuch as Thou art nigher unto us than we (unto ourselves).
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این دعا هم بخشش و تعلیم تست ** گر نه در گلخن گلستان از چه رست
- Even this prayer is Thy gift and lesson (to us); else, wherefore has a rose-bed grown in an ash-pit?
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در میان خون و روده فهم و عقل ** جز ز اکرام تو نتوان کرد نقل 2450
- Save through Thy munificence, ’tis impossible to convey understanding and reason into the midst of blood and entrails.
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از دو پارهی پیه این نور روان ** موج نورش میزند بر آسمان
- This flowing light (proceeds) from two pieces of fat (the two eyeballs): their waves of light reach up to the sky.
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گوشت پاره که زبان آمد از او ** میرود سیلاب حکمت همچو جو
- The piece of flesh which is the tongue—from it the flood of Wisdom is flowing, like a stream,
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سوی سوراخی که نامش گوشهاست ** تا بباغ جان که میوهاش هوشهاست
- Towards a cavity, whereof the name is “ears,” up to the orchard of the (rational) soul, whereof the fruit is intellections.
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شاه راه باغ جانها شرع اوست ** باغ و بستانهای عالم فرع اوست
- Its main course is the highway of the orchard of souls; the orchards and gardens of the world are its branches.
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اصل و سرچشمهی خوشی آن است آن ** زود تجری تحتها الأنهار خوان 2455
- That, that, is the source and fountainhead of joy: quick, recite (the text), (gardens) beneath which flow the rivers.
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تتمه‌ای نصیحت رسول صلی الله علیه و آله بیمار را
- Conclusion of the admonishment given by the Prophet, God bless and save him, to the sick man.
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گفت پیغمبر مر آن بیمار را ** چون عیادت کرد یار زار را
- The Prophet said to the sick man, when he visited (his) suffering friend,