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خود کی بیند مردم دیده‌ی ترا ** در جهان جز مردم دیده‌فزا
- Who in the world, indeed, sees the man of your (inward) eye except the Man of piercing sight?
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چون به غیر مردم دیده‌ش ندید ** پس به غیر او کی در رنگش رسید 3525
- Since none but the Man of the eye beheld it, who, then, but he attained to (knowledge of) its (essential) colour?
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پس جز او جمله مقلد آمدند ** در صفات مردم دیده بلند
- Therefore all except him (the Seer) are imitators (without immediate knowledge) in regard to the attributes of the sublime man of the eye.
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گفت جفتش الفراق ای خوش‌خصال ** گفت نه نه الوصالست الوصال
- His (Bilál's) wife said to him, “(This is) the parting, O man of goodly qualities.” “Nay, nay,” said he, “’tis the union, the union (with God).”
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گفت جفت امشب غریبی می‌روی ** از تبار و خویش غایب می‌شوی
- The wife said, “To-night thou wilt go to a strange country, thou wilt become absent from thy family and kindred.”
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گفت نه نه بلک امشب جان من ** می‌رسد خود از غریبی در وطن
- “Nay, nay,” he replied; “contrariwise, to-night in sooth from a strange country my spirit is coming home.”
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گفت رویت را کجا بینیم ما ** گفت اندر حلقه‌ی خاص خدا 3530
- She said, “Where shall we behold thy face?” He answered, “In God's chosen circle.”
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حلقه‌ی خاصش به تو پیوسته است ** گر نظر بالا کنی نه سوی پست
- His chosen circle adjoins you, if you look upward, not downward.
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اندر آن حلقه ز رب العالمین ** نور می‌تابد چو در حلقه نگین
- In that circle the Light from the Lord of created beings is gleaming like the bezel in the circle (of the seal-ring).
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گفت ویران گشت این خانه دریغ ** گفت اندر مه نگر منگر به میغ
- “Alas,” she said, “this house has been ruined.” “Look on the moon,” said he, “do not look on the cloud.