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گفت پیغامبر شما را ای مهان ** چون پدر هستم شفیق و مهربان
- The Prophet said, “O sirs, to you I am compassionate and kind as a father,
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زان سبب که جمله اجزای منید ** جزو را از کل چرا بر می‌کنید 1935
- Because ye all are parts of me.” Why (then) will ye tear the part away from the whole?
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جزو از کل قطع شد بی کار شد ** عضو از تن قطع شد مردار شد
- (When) the part is severed from the whole, it becomes useless; (when) the limb is severed from the body, it becomes carrion.
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تا نپیوندد بکل بار دگر ** مرده باشد نبودش از جان خبر
- Till it is joined once more to the whole, it is dead: it has no consciousness of life;
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ور بجنبد نیست آن را خود سند ** عضو نو ببریده هم جنبش کند
- And if it move, yet it has no support: the newly severed limb also moves.
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جزو ازین کل گر برد یکسو رود ** این نه آن کلست کو ناقص شود
- If the part be severed and fall asunder from this (spiritual) whole, this is not the (kind of) whole that is liable to defect.
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قطع و وصل او نیاید در مقال ** چیز ناقص گفته شد بهر مثال 1940
- Separation from it and conjunction with it are not (really) predicable; the defective thing has been mentioned (only) for the sake of comparison.
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بازگشتن به قصه‌ی دقوقی
- Return to the story of Daqúqí.
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مر علی را در مثالی شیر خواند ** شیر مثل او نباشد گرچه راند
- He (the Prophet) once compared ‘Alí to a lion, (but) the lion is not like him, though he (the Prophet) used (this expression).
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از مثال و مثل و فرق آن بران ** جانب قصه‌ی دقوقی ای جوان
- From comparison (mithál) and likeness (mithl) and the difference between those (terms) push on, O youth, towards the story of Daqúqí:
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آنک در فتوی امام خلق بود ** گوی تقوی از فرشته می‌ربود
- That one who in giving legal judgements was the Imám of the people and in piety bore away the ball from the angels;