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ساعتی با آن گروه مجتبی ** چون مراقب گشتم و از خود جدا
- When for a while I had taken part with that elect company in contemplation (of God) and had been separated from myself,
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هم در آن ساعت ز ساعت رست جان ** زانک ساعت پیر گرداند جوان
- At that very hour my spirit was freed from hours (of Time); (I say ‘freed’) because hours make the young old.”
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جمله تلوینها ز ساعت خاستست ** رست از تلوین که از ساعت برست
- All changes have arisen from the hours: he that is freed from the hours is freed from change.
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چون ز ساعت ساعتی بیرون شوی ** چون نماند محرم بی‌چون شوی 2075
- When for an hour you escape from the hours, relation abides not: you become familiar with that which is without relation.
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ساعت از بی‌ساعتی آگاه نیست ** زانکش آن سو جز تحیر راه نیست
- The hours are not acquainted with hourlessness (timelessness), because for him (who is conscious of time) there is no way thither except bewilderment.
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هر نفر را بر طویله خاص او ** بسته‌اند اندر جهان جست و جو
- In this world of search and seeking every set of people have been tied in the stable peculiar to them,
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منتصب بر هر طویله رایضی ** جز بدستوری نیاید رافضی
- And over each stable a trainer has been appointed; save by (his) permission no recalcitrant comes (into another place).
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از هوس گر از طویله بسکلد ** در طویله دیگران سر در کند
- If, from vain desire, he should break away from the stable and intrude into the stable of others,
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در زمان آخرجیان چست خوش ** گوشه‌ی افسار او گیرند و کش 2080
- At once the nimble and goodly stablemen seize the corner of his halter and drag (him back).
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حافظان را گر نبینی ای عیار ** اختیارت را ببین بی اختیار
- O cunning one, if you behold not your keepers, behold your choice (and perceive that it is) involuntary.