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عشق او پیدا و معشوقش نهان ** یار بیرون فتنهی او در جهان
- His love is manifest and his Beloved is hidden: the Friend is outside (of the world), (but) His fascination is in the world.
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این رها کن عشقهای صورتی ** نیست بر صورت نه بر روی ستی
- Give up this (belief). Loves (felt) for what is endued with form have not as their object the (outward) form or the lady's face.
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آن چه معشوق است صورت نیست آن ** خواه عشق این جهان خواه آن جهان
- That which is the object of love is not the form, whether it be love for (the things of) this world or yonder world.
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آن چه بر صورت تو عاشق گشتهای ** چون برون شد جان چرایش هشتهای
- That which you have come to love for its form—why have you abandoned it after the spirit has fled?
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صورتش بر جاست این سیری ز چیست ** عاشقا واجو که معشوق تو کیست 705
- Its form is still there: whence (then) this satiety (disgust)? O lover, inquire who your beloved (really) is.
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آن چه محسوس است اگر معشوقه است ** عاشق استی هر که او را حس هست
- If the beloved is that which the senses perceive, every one that has senses would be in love (with it).
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چون وفا آن عشق افزون میکند ** کی وفا صورت دگرگون میکند
- Inasmuch as constancy is increased by that (spiritual) love, how is constancy altered (impaired) by the (decay of the material) form?
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پرتو خورشید بر دیوار تافت ** تابش عاریتی دیوار یافت
- The sunbeam shone upon the wall: the wall received a borrowed splendour.
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بر کلوخی دل چه بندی ای سلیم ** واطلب اصلی که تابد او مقیم
- Why set your heart on a piece of turf, O simple man? Seek out the source which shines perpetually.
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ای که تو هم عاشقی بر عقل خویش ** خویش بر صورت پرستان دیده بیش 710
- You who are in love with your intellect, deeming yourself superior to worshippers of form,