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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.
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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?
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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.
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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.”
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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.
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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).
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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.”
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زین طلب بنده به کوی تو رسید ** درد مریم را به خرما بن کشید
- In this quest thy slave (at last) arrived at thy dwelling-place, (as) the pains (of childbirth) drew Mary to the palm-tree.
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دیدهی تو چون دلم را دیده شد ** این دل نادیده غرق دیده شد
- When thine eye became an eye for my heart, my blind heart went and became drowned in vision.
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آینهی کلی ترا دیدم ابد ** دیدم اندر چشم تو من نقش خود 100
- I saw that thou art the Universal Mirror unto everlasting: I saw my own image in thine eye.