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در گل تیره یقین هم آب هست ** لیک زان آبت نشاید آب‌دست
- Certainly in the dark earth also there is water, but ’tis not proper for you to wash your hands with that water,
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زانک گر آبست مغلوب گلست ** پس دل خود را مگو کین هم دلست
- Because, though it is water, it is overcome by the earth. Do not, then, say of your heart, “This too is a heart.”
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آن دلی کز آسمانها برترست ** آن دل ابدال یا پیغامبرست
- The heart that is higher than the heavens is the heart of the saint or the prophet.
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پاک گشته آن ز گل صافی شده ** در فزونی آمده وافی شده
- That (heart) has become cleansed of earth and purified; it has come to (full) growth and has been made complete.
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ترک گل کرده سوی بحر آمده ** رسته از زندان گل بحری شده 2250
- It has taken leave of earth and has come to the Sea; it has escaped from the prison of earth and has become of the Sea.
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آب ما محبوس گل ماندست هین ** بحر رحمت جذب کن ما را ز طین
- (But) our water has remained imprisoned in earth. Hark, O Sea of Mercy, draw us out of the clay!
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بحر گوید من ترا در خود کشم ** لیک می‌لافی که من آب خوشم
- The Sea says, “I draw thee into myself, but thou art vainly pretending to be the sweet water.
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لاف تو محروم می‌دارد ترا ** ترک آن پنداشت کن در من درآ
- Thy vain pretence is keeping thee deprived of fortune: abandon that (idle) fancy and enter into me.”
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آب گل خواهد که در دریا رود ** گل گرفته پای آب و می‌کشد
- The water in the earth (of the body) desires to go into the Sea, (but) the earth has seized the water's foot and is dragging (it back).
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گر رهاند پای خود از دست گل ** گل بماند خشک و او شد مستقل 2255
- If it release its foot from the hand of the earth, the earth will be left dry, and it (the water) becomes absolutely free.