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قشرها را مغز اندر باغ جو ** ز انکه آب از باغ میآید به جو
- Seek the kernels of the husks (not on the water, but) in the Garden, because the water comes from the Garden into the river-bed.
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گر نبینی رفتن آب حیات ** بنگر اندر جوی و این سیر نبات
- If you see not the flow of the Water of Life, look at the stream and at this movement of the weeds (in it).
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آب چون انبهتر آید در گذر ** زو کند قشر صور زوتر گذر 3300
- When the water begins to pass by in fuller volume, the husks, (which are) the ideas, pass along it more quickly.
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چون به غایت تیز شد این جو روان ** غم نپاید در ضمیر عارفان
- When this stream has become extremely rapid in its flow, no care lingers in the minds of the gnostics.
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چون به غایت ممتلی بود و شتاب ** پس نگنجید اندر او الا که آب
- Since it is (then) exceedingly full and swift, on that account there is no room in it for anything but the water.
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طعنه زدن بیگانه ای در شیخ و جواب گفتن مرید شیخ او را
- How a stranger reviled the Shaykh and how the Shaykh's disciple answered him.
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آن یکی یک شیخ را تهمت نهاد ** کاو بد است و نیست بر راه رشاد
- A certain man brought charges against a Shaykh, saying, “He is wicked and not on the path of righteousness;
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شارب خمر است و سالوس و خبیث ** مر مریدان را کجا باشد مغیث
- He is a wine-drinker and a hypocrite and a scoundrel: how should he be one to succour his disciples?”
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آن یکی گفتش ادب را هوش دار ** خرد نبود این چنین ظن بر کبار 3305
- One (of the disciples) said to him, “Observe respect: ’tis no light matter to think so ill of the great.
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دور از او و دور از آن اوصاف او ** که ز سیلی تیره گردد صاف او
- Far is it from him and far from those (saintly) qualities of his that his clear (spirit) should be darkened by a flood (of sin).
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این چنین بهتان منه بر اهل حق ** این خیال تست بر گردان ورق
- Do not put such slander on the people of God! This is (mere) fancy on your part. Turn over (a new) leaf.