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دوست حقست و کسی کش گفت او ** که توی آن من و من آن تو
- The beloved is God and the person to whom He hath said, “Thou art Mine and I am thine.”
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گوش دار اکنون که عاشق می‌رسد ** بسته عشق او را به حبل من مسد 4615
- Now listen, for the lover is coming whom Love bound with a cord of palm-fibre.
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چون بدید او چهره‌ی صدر جهان ** گوییا پریدش از تن مرغ جان
- When he beheld the countenance of the Sadr-i Jahán, you might say the bird, his spirit, flew out of his body.
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همچو چوب خشک افتاد آن تنش ** سرد شد از فرق جان تا ناخنش
- His body fell like dry wood: his vital spirit became cold from the crown of his head to his toes.
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هرچه کردند از بخور و از گلاب ** نه بجنبید و نه آمد در خطاب
- Whatsoever they applied of incense and rose-water, he neither stirred nor spoke.
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شاه چون دید آن مزعفر روی او ** پس فرود آمد ز مرکب سوی او
- When the King saw his saffron-coloured (pallid) face, he dismounted from his steed (and came) towards him.
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گفت عاشق دوست می‌جوید بتفت ** چونک معشوق آمد آن عاشق برفت 4620
- He said, “The lover hotly seeks the beloved: when the beloved comes, the lover is gone.”
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عاشق حقی و حق آنست کو ** چون بیاید نبود از تو تای مو
- Thou art a lover of God, and God is such that when He comes there is not a single hair of thee (remaining).
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صد چو تو فانیست پیش آن نظر ** عاشقی بر نفی خود خواجه مگر
- At that look (of His) a hundred like thee vanish away: me-thinks, sire, thou art in love with self-naughting .
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سایه‌ای و عاشقی بر آفتاب ** شمس آید سایه لا گردد شتاب
- Thou art a shadow and in love with the sun: the sun comes, the shadow is naughted speedily.
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داد خواستن پشه از باد به حضرت سلیمان علیه السلام
- How, in the presence of Solomon, on whom be peace, the gnat appealed for justice against the Wind.