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بهر این دنیاست مرسل رابطه ** مومنان را زانک هست او واسطه
- On account of this present life the (Divine) messenger is a link for the true believers, because he is the intermediary (between them and God).
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هر دل ار سامع بدی وحی نهان ** حرف و صوتی کی بدی اندر جهان
- If every heart were hearing the hidden (Divine) revelation, how should there be in the world any words and sounds (to make it known)?
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گرچه او محو حقست و بی‌سرست ** لیک کار من از آن نازکترست 2980
- Though he (the intercessor) is lost in God and headless (devoid of self existence), yet my case is more delicate than that.
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کرده‌ی او کرده‌ی شاهست لیک ** پیش ضعفم بد نماینده‌ست نیک
- His act is the act of the king, but to my infirmity the good (which he did) appears to be evil.”
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آنچ عین لطف باشد بر عوام ** قهر شد بر نازنینان کرام
- That which is the very essence of grace to the vulgar becomes wrath to the noble favourites (of God).
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بس بلا و رنج می‌باید کشید ** عامه را تا فرق را توانند دید
- Much tribulation and pain must the vulgar endure in order that they may be able to perceive the difference;
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کین حروف واسطه ای یار غار ** پیش واصل خار باشد خار خار
- For, O (my) companion in the Cave, these intermediary words are, in the sight of one united (with God), thorns, thorns, thorns.
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بس بلا و رنج بایست و وقوف ** تا رهد آن روح صافی از حروف 2985
- Much tribulation and pain and waiting were needed in order that that pure spirit might be delivered from the (intermediary) words;
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لیک بعضی زین صدا کرتر شدند ** باز بعضی صافی و برتر شدند
- But some (persons) have become more deaf (than others) to this echo; some, again, have become purified and have mounted higher.
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هم‌چو آب نیل آمد این بلا ** سعد را آبست و خون بر اشقیا
- This tribulation is like the water of the Nile: it is water to the blessed and blood to the damned.