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چشم حس همچون کف دستست و بس ** نیست کف را بر همه‌ی او دست‌رس
- The eye of sense-perception is only like the palm of the hand: the palm hath not power to reach the whole of him (the elephant).
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چشم دریا دیگرست و کف دگر ** کف بهل وز دیده‌ی دریا نگر 1270
- The eye of the Sea is one thing, and the foam another: leave the foam and look with the eye of the Sea.
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جنبش کفها ز دریا روز و شب ** کف همی‌بینی و دریا نه عجب
- Day and night (there is) the movement of foam-flecks from the Sea: thou beholdest the foam, but not the Sea. Marvellous!
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ما چو کشتیها بهم بر می‌زنیم ** تیره‌چشمیم و در آب روشنیم
- We are dashing against each other, like boats: our eyes are darkened, though we are in the clear water.
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ای تو در کشتی تن رفته به خواب ** آب را دیدی نگر در آب آب
- O thou that hast gone to sleep in the body's boat, thou hast seen the water, (but) look on the Water of the water.
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آب را آبیست کو می‌راندش ** روح را روحیست کو می‌خواندش
- The water hath a Water that is driving it; the spirit hath a Spirit that is calling it.
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موسی و عیسی کجا بد کفتاب ** کشت موجودات را می‌داد آب 1275
- Where were Moses and Jesus when the (Divine) Sun was giving water to the sown field of existent things?
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آدم و حوا کجا بد آن زمان ** که خدا افکند این زه در کمان
- Where were Adam and Eve at the time when God fitted this string to the bow?
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این سخن هم ناقص است و ابترست ** آن سخن که نیست ناقص آن سرست
- This (manner of) speech, too, is imperfect and maimed; the speech that is not imperfect is Yonder.
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گر بگوید زان بلغزد پای تو ** ور نگوید هیچ از آن ای وای تو
- If he (the saint) speak from that (source), thy foot will stumble; and if he speak naught of that, oh, alas for thee!