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هفت شمع از دور دیدم ناگهان ** اندر آن ساحل شتابیدم بدان 1985
- Of a sudden I beheld from afar seven candles and hastened along the shore towards them.
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نور شعله‌ی هر یکی شمعی از آن ** بر شده خوش تا عنان آسمان
- The light of the flame of each candle thereof ascended beauteously to the loft of the sky.
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خیره گشتم خیرگی هم خیره گشت ** موج حیرت عقل را از سر گذشت
- I became amazed, (so that) even amazement (itself) became amazed: the waves of bewilderment passed over the head of my understanding.
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این چگونه شمعها افروختست ** کین دو دیده‌ی خلق ازینها دوختست
- (I thought), ‘What kind of candles are these (that) He hath lighted, so that the eyes of His creatures are screened from them?’
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خلق جویان چراغی گشته بود ** پیش آن شمعی که بر مه می‌فزود
- The people had gone to seek a lamp in the presence of that (sevenfold) candle which was surpassing the moon (in splendour).
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چشم‌بندی بد عجب بر دیده‌ها ** بندشان می‌کرد یهدی من یشا 1990
- Wonderful! There was a bandage over their eyes: they were bound by (the Divine destiny implied in the text) He guideth aright those whom He will.
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شدن آن هفت شمع بر مثال یک شمع
- How the seven candles became what seemed like one candle.
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باز می‌دیدم که می‌شد هفت یک ** می‌شکافد نور او جیب فلک
- Then I saw the seven (candles) become one, its light cleaving the bosom (rim) of the sky.
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باز آن یک بار دیگر هفت شد ** مستی و حیرانی من زفت شد
- Then again that one became seven once more: my intoxication and bewilderment waxed mighty.
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اتصالاتی میان شمعها ** که نیاید بر زبان و گفت ما
- (There were) such connexions between the candles as may not come (may not be uttered) on my tongue and (in) my speech.
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آنک یک دیدن کند ادارک آن ** سالها نتوان نمودن از زبان
- That which one look perceives, ’tis impossible during years to show it forth by the tongue.