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  • فعل و قول و صدق شد قوت ملک ** تا بدین معراج شد سوی فلک
  • Action and speech and sincerity became the food of the angel, so that by means of this ladder he mounted to heaven,
  • آنچنان کان طعمه شد قوت بشر ** از جمادی بر شد و شد جانور
  • Just as (when) that morsel became the food of Man, it mounted from (the state of) inanimateness and became possessed of soul.
  • این سخن را ترجمه‌ی پهناوری ** گفته آید در مقام دیگری 4190
  • As regards this topic, a wide (far-reaching) explanation will be given in another place.
  • کاروان دایم ز گردون می‌رسد ** تا تجارت می‌کند وا می‌رود
  • “The caravan (of spirits) is incessantly arriving from heaven, that they may traffic (on the earth) and go back again.
  • پس برو شیرین و خوش با اختیار ** نه بتلخی و کراهت دزدوار
  • Go, then, sweetly and gladly with free-will, not with bitterness and loathing, like a thief.
  • زان حدیث تلخ می‌گویم ترا ** تا ز تلخیها فرو شویم ترا
  • I am speaking bitter words to thee, in order that I may wash thee (clean) of bitternesses.
  • ز آب سرد انگور افسرده رهد ** سردی و افسردگی بیرون نهد
  • The frozen grape is thawed by cold water and lays aside its coldness and congealment.
  • تو ز تلخی چونکه دل پر خون شوی ** پس ز تلخیها همه بیرون روی 4195
  • When, from (having endured) bitterness (self-mortification), thy heart is filled with blood (like the grape), then thou wilt escape from all bitternesses.
  • تمثیل صابر شدن مومن چون بر شر و خیر بلا واقف شود
  • A comparison showing how the true believer becomes patient when he understands the inward meaning and the beneficial nature of tribulation.
  • سگ شکاری نیست او را طوق نیست ** خام و ناجوشیده جز بی‌ذوق نیست
  • (If) a dog is not (kept) for hunting, he has no collar: the raw and unboiled is naught but the insipid.”
  • گفت نخود چون چنینست ای ستی ** خوش بجوشم یاریم ده راستی
  • The chickpea said, “Since it is so, O lady, I will gladly boil: give me help in verity!