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کوه برفی میزند بر کوه برف ** دم به دم ز انبار بیحد و شگرف
- At every moment snow-mountain is being piled on snow-mountain from the illimitable and vast storehouse.
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گر نبودی این چنین وادی شها ** تف دوزخ محو کردی مر مرا
- O king, if there were not a valley (of snow) like this, the glowing heat of Hell would annihilate me.”
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غافلان را کوههای برف دان ** تا نسوزد پردههای عاقلان 3740
- Know that (in this world) the heedless are (like) snow-mountains, to the end that the veils of the intelligent may not be consumed.
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گر نبودی عکس جهل برفباف ** سوختی از نار شوق آن کوه قاف
- Were it not for the reflexion (effect) of snow-weaving (chilling) ignorance, that Mount Qáf would be consumed by the fire of longing.
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آتش از قهر خدا خود ذرهایست ** بهر تهدید لیمان درهایست
- The Fire (of Hell) in sooth is (only) an atom of God's wrath; it is (only) a whip to threaten the base.
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با چنین قهری که زفت و فایق است ** برد لطفش بین که بر وی سابق است
- Notwithstanding such a wrath, which is mighty and surpassing all, observe that the coolness of His clemency is prior to it.
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سبق بیچون و چگونهی معنوی ** سابق و مسبوق دیدی بیدوی
- (’Tis) a spiritual priority, unqualified and unconditioned. Have you seen the prior and the posterior without duality (have you seen them to be one)?
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گر ندیدی آن بود از فهم پست ** که عقول خلق زان کان یک جوست 3745
- If you have not seen them (as one), that is because of feeble understanding; for the minds of God's creatures are (but) a single grain of that mine.
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عیب بر خود نه نه بر آیات دین ** کی رسد بر چرخ دین مرغ گلین
- Lay the blame on yourself, not on the evidences of the (true) Religion: how should the bird of clay reach the sky of the (true) Religion?
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مرغ را جولانگه عالی هواست ** زانک نشو او ز شهوت وز هواست
- The bird's lofty soaring-place is (only) the air, since its origin is from lust and sensuality.