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فضل آن مسجد خاک و سنگ نیست ** لیک در بناش حرص و جنگ نیست
- The excellence of that mosque (which the prophets build) is not from earth and stone, but (because) there is no greed or enmity in its builder.
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نه کتبشان مثل کتب دیگران ** نی مساجدشان نی کسب وخان و مان 1140
- Their Books are not as the books of others, nor their mosques nor their means of livelihood nor their houses and homes,
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نه ادبشان نه غضبشان نه نکال ** نه نعاس و نه قیاس و نه مقال
- Nor their observance of respect nor their anger nor their chastisement nor their slumber nor their reasoning nor their discourse.
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هر یکیشان را یکی فری دگر ** مرغ جانشان طایر از پری دگر
- To each one of them belongs a different glory: (in each of them) the bird, their spirit, flies with a different wing.
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دل همی لرزد ز ذکر حالشان ** قبلهی افعال ما افعالشان
- The heart is trembling at mention of their (high) estate: their actions are the qibla (to which we turn for guidance) of our actions.
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مرغشان را بیضهها زرین بدست ** نیمشب جانشان سحرگه بین شدست
- The eggs laid by their bird (spirit) are golden: at midnight their spirit hath beheld the dawn.
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هر چه گویم من به جان نیکوی قوم ** نقص گفتم گشته ناقصگوی قوم 1145
- Whatsoever I say with (all) my soul in praise of the company (of the prophets), I have depreciated (them): I have become a disparager of the company.
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مسجد اقصی بسازید ای کرام ** که سلیمان باز آمد والسلام
- O ye noble. (seekers of God), build “the Farther Mosque,” for Solomon hath returned—and peace (be with you)!
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ور ازین دیوان و پریان سر کشند ** جمله را املاک در چنبر کشند
- And if the demons and genies refuse this (service)’, the angels will drag them all into bondage.
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دیو یک دم کژ رود از مکر و زرق ** تازیانه آیدش بر سر چو برق
- (If) the demon once make a false step on account of deceit and hypocrisy, the whip comes (down) on his head like lightning.