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در تحیات و سلام الصالحین ** مدح جمله‌ی انبیا آمد عجین
- In the salutations and benedictions addressed to the righteous (saints) praise of all the prophets is blended.
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مدحها شد جملگی آمیخته ** کوزه‌ها در یک لگن در ریخته
- The praises are all commingled (and united): the jugs are poured into one basin.
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زانک خود ممدوح جز یک بیش نیست ** کیشها زین روی جز یک کیش نیست
- Inasmuch as the object of praise Himself is not more than One, from this point of view (all) religions are but one religion.
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دان که هر مدحی بنور حق رود ** بر صور و اشخاص عاریت بود 2125
- Know that every praise goes (belongs) to the Light of God and is (only) lent to (created) forms and persons.
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مدحها جز مستحق را کی کنند ** لیک بر پنداشت گم‌ره می‌شوند
- How should folk praise (any one) except Him who (alone) has the right (to be praised)?—but they go astray on (the ground of) a vain fancy.
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همچو نوری تافته بر حایطی ** حایط آن انوار را چون رابطی
- The Light of God in relation to phenomena is as a light shining upon a wall—the wall is a link (focus) for these splendours:
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لاجرم چون سایه سوی اصل راند ** ضال مه گم کرد و ز استایش بماند
- Necessarily, when the reflexion moved towards its source, he who had gone astray lost the moon and ceased from praise;
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یا ز چاهی عکس ماهی وا نمود ** سر بچه در کرد و آن را می‌ستود
- Or (again) a reflexion of the moon appeared from a well, and he (the misguided one) put his head into the well and was praising that same (reflexion):
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در حقیقت مادح ماهست او ** گرچه جهل او بعکسش کرد رو 2130
- In truth he is a praiser of the moon, although his ignorance has turned its face towards its (the moon's) reflexion.
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مدح او مه‌راست نه آن عکس را ** کفر شد آن چون غلط شد ماجرا
- His praise belongs to the moon, not to that reflexion, (but) that (praise) becomes infidelity when the matter is misapprehended;