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اذن مومن وحی ما را واعیست ** آنچنان گوشی قرین داعیست
- The true believer's ear is retaining our inspiration: such an ear is closely linked to the caller (the perfect saint)—
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هم‌چنانک گوش طفل از گفت مام ** پر شود ناطق شود او درکلام
- Just as (for example) the infant's ear is filled with its mother's words, (and then) it (the infant) begins to speak articulately;
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ور نباشد طفل را گوش رشد ** گفت مادر نشنود گنگی شود
- And if the infant have not a right (rightly-hearing) ear, it does not hear its mother's words and becomes a mute.
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دایما هر کر اصلی گنگ بود ** ناطق آنکس شد که از مادر شنود
- Every one born deaf has always been dumb: (only) that one who heard (speech) from his mother became a speaker.
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دانک گوش کر و گنگ از آفتیست ** که پذیرای دم و تعلیم نیست 3040
- Know that the deaf ear and the dumb man are the result of a certain defect; for it (the deaf ear) is not capable of (hearing) words and being taught.
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آنک بی‌تعلیم بد ناطق خداست ** که صفات او ز علتها جداست
- The (only) one that possessed speech without being taught is God, whose attributes are separated (exempt) from infirmities,
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یا چو آدم کرده تلقینش خدا ** بی‌حجاب مادر و دایه و ازا
- Or one like Adam whom God instructed without the screen (mediation) of mother and nurse and necessaries,
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یا مسیحی که به تعلیم ودود ** در ولادت ناطق آمد در وجود
- Or the Messiah (Christ) who, through being taught by the Loving (God), at his birth came speaking into the world,
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از برای دفع تهمت در ولاد ** که نزادست از زنا و از فساد
- For the purpose of repelling the suspicion as to his birth (and proving) that he was not born of fornication and wickedness.
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جنبشی بایست اندر اجتهاد ** تا که دوغ آن روغن از دل باز داد 3045
- A (great) shaking was required in the effort that the buttermilk might render back that butter from its (inmost) heart.