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  • چون فراق آن دو نور بی‏ثبات ** تاسه آوردت گشادی چشمهات‏
  • Inasmuch as separation from those two impermanent lights brought you discomfort, (so that) you opened your eyes,

  • پس فراق آن دو نور پایدار ** تاسه می‏آرد مر آن را پاس دار
  • Separation, then, from those two steadfast (everlasting) lights will bring you discomfort: guard them (well)!

  • او چو می‏خواند مرا من بنگرم ** لایق جذب‏ام و یا بد پیکرم‏ 90
  • Since He is calling me, I will look to see whether I am worthy to be drawn (to Him) or whether I am ill-favoured.

  • گر لطیفی زشت را در پی کند ** تسخری باشد که او بر وی کند
  • If a charming person makes an ugly one (follow) at his heels, ’tis (but) a mockery that he makes of him.

  • کی ببینم روی خود را ای عجب ** تا چه رنگم همچو روزم یا چو شب‏
  • How, I wonder, shall I behold my own face, so as to see what complexion I have and whether I am like day or like night?

  • نقش جان خویش می‏جستم بسی ** هیچ می‏ننمود نقشم از کسی‏
  • For a long while I was seeking the image of my soul, (but) my image was not displayed (reflected) by any one.

  • گفتم آخر آینه از بهر چیست ** تا بداند هر کسی کاو چیست و کیست‏
  • “After all,” I said, “what is a mirror for? (The use of it is this), that every one may know what and who he is.”

  • آینه‏ی آهن برای پوستهاست ** آینه‏ی سیمای جان سنگین بهاست‏ 95
  • The mirror of iron is (only) for husks (external forms); the mirror that shows the aspect of the heart is of great price.

  • آینه‏ی جان نیست الا روی یار ** روی آن یاری که باشد ز آن دیار
  • The soul's mirror is naught but the face of the friend, the face of that friend who is of yonder country (the spiritual land).

  • گفتم ای دل آینه‏ی کلی بجو ** رو به دریا کار برناید به جو
  • I said, “O heart, seek the Universal Mirror, go to the Sea: the business will not succeed (be successfully accomplished) by means of the river.”