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ناف ما بر مهر او ببریدهاند ** عشق او در جان ما کاریدهاند
- They cut my navel in (predestined me from birth to) love of Him: they sowed love of Him in my heart.
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روز نیکو دیدهایم از روزگار ** آب رحمت خوردهایم اندر بهار
- I have seen good days from Fortune: I have drunk the water of (Divine) Mercy in (my) spring-time.
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نه که ما را دست فضلش کاشته ست ** از عدم ما را نه او برداشته ست
- Was it not the hand of His bounty that sowed me? Was it not He that raised me up from non-existence?
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ای بسا کز وی نوازش دیدهایم ** در گلستان رضا گردیدهایم 2625
- Oh, many is the time I have received kindness from Him and walked in the rose-garden of (His) approval.
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بر سر ما دست رحمت مینهاد ** چشمههای لطف از ما میگشاد
- He would lay the hand of mercy on my head, He would open (let flow) from me the fountains of grace.
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وقت طفلیام که بودم شیر جو ** گاهوارم را که جنبانید او
- Who found milk for me in the season of my infancy? Who rocked my cradle? He.
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از که خوردم شیر غیر شیر او ** کی مرا پرورد جز تدبیر او
- From whom did I drink milk other than His milk? Who nourished me except His providence?
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خوی کان با شیر رفت اندر وجود ** کی توان آن را ز مردم واگشود
- The disposition which has entered with the milk into (their) being—how can it be discharged (expelled) from folk?
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گر عتابی کرد دریای کرم ** بسته کی گردند درهای کرم 2630
- If the Sea of Bounty has given (me) a rebuke, (yet) how have the doors of Bounty been shut?
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اصل نقدش داد و لطف و بخشش است ** قهر بر وی چون غباری از غش است
- Giving and grace and favour are the fundamental substance of His coin: wrath is (only) as a speck of alloy on it.