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سر کشیدی تو که من صاحبدلم ** حاجت غیری ندارم واصلم
- You scornfully refused (help), saying, “I am the owner of a (purified) heart: I have no need of any one else, I am united (with God).”
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آنچنانک آب در گل سر کشد ** که منم آب و چرا جویم مدد
- That is as though the water in the earth should scornfully refuse, saying, “I am the water, and why should I seek aid?”
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دل تو این آلوده را پنداشتی ** لاجرم دل ز اهل دل برداشتی
- You fancied this polluted (heart) was the (pure) heart; consequently you averted your heart from those possessed of (purified) hearts.
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خود روا داری که آن دل باشد این ** کو بود در عشق شیر و انگبین
- Do you indeed think it possible that this heart which is in love with milk and honey should be that (pure) heart?
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لطف شیر و انگبین عکس دلست ** هر خوشی را آن خوش از دل حاصلست 2265
- The deliciousness of milk and honey is the reflexion of the (pure) heart: from that heart the sweetness of every sweet thing is derived.
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پس بود دل جوهر و عالم عرض ** سایهی دل چون بود دل را غرض
- Hence the heart is the substance, and the world is the accident: how should the heart's shadow (reflexion) be the object of the heart's desire?
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آن دلی کو عاشق مالست و جاه ** یا زبون این گل و آب سیاه
- Is that (pure heart) the heart that is enamoured of riches and power, or is submissive to this black earth and water (the body),
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یا خیالاتی که در ظلمات او ** میپرستدشان برای گفت و گو
- Or to vain fancies which it worships in the darkness for the sake of fame?
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دل نباشد غیر آن دریای نور ** دل نظرگاه خدا وانگاه کور
- The heart is naught but the Sea of Light: is the heart the place for vision of God—and then blind?
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نه دل اندر صد هزاران خاص و عام ** در یکی باشد کدامست آن کدام 2270
- The heart is not (contained) in hundreds of thousands (of persons) noble or common; it is in a single one: which is he? Which?