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درد خیزد زین چنین دیدن درون ** درد او را از حجاب آرد برون
- Pain will arise from such looking within, and the pain will bring him out from the veil (of self-conceit).
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تا نگیرد مادران را درد زه ** طفل در زادن نیابد هیچ ره
- Until mothers are overtaken by the pains of childbirth, the child finds no way to be born.
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این امانت در دل و دل حامله ست ** این نصیحتها مثال قابله ست
- This (God-given) trust is in the heart, and the heart is pregnant (with it): these counsels (of the prophets and saints) are like the midwife.
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قابله گوید که زن را درد نیست ** درد باید درد کودک را رهی است 2520
- The midwife may say that the woman has no pain; (but) pain is necessary, pain is (makes) a way for the child (to be born).
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آن که او بیدرد باشد ره زن است ** ز انکه بیدردی انا الحق گفتن است
- He that is without pain is a brigand, because to be without pain is to say “I am God.”
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آن انا بیوقت گفتن لعنت است ** آن انا در وقت گفتن رحمت است
- To say that “I” out of the (proper) time is a curse (to the speaker); to say that “I” at the (proper) time is a mercy (from God).
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آن انا منصور رحمت شد یقین ** آن انا فرعون لعنت شد ببین
- The “I” of Mansúr (Halláj) certainly became a mercy; the “I” of Pharaoh became a curse. Mark (this)!
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لاجرم هر مرغ بیهنگام را ** سر بریدن واجب است اعلام را
- Consequently, it is incumbent (on us) to behead every untimely bird (every cock that crows too soon), in order to give notice (warning).
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سر بریدن چیست کشتن نفس را ** در جهاد و ترک گفتن نفس را 2525
- What is “beheading”? Killing the fleshly soul in the holy (spiritual) war, and renouncing heat (sensual appetite).
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آن چنان که نیش کژدم بر کنی ** تا که یابد او ز کشتن ایمنی
- Just as you would extract the scorpion’s sting in order that it might be saved from being killed,