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مسکل از پیغامبر ایام خویش ** تکیه کم کن بر فن و بر کام خویش
- Do not break with the prophet of your days: do not rely on your own skill and footsteps.
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گرچه شیری چون روی ره بی‌دلیل ** خویش‌بین و در ضلالی و ذلیل
- Lion though you are, you are self-conceited and in error and contemptible when you go on the way without a guide.
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هین مپر الا که با پرهای شیخ ** تا ببینی عون و لشکرهای شیخ
- Beware! Do not fly but with the wings of the Shaykh, that you may see (receive) the aid of the armies of the Shaykh.
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یک زمانی موج لطفش بال تست ** آتش قهرش دمی حمال تست 545
- At one time the wave of his mercy is your pinion, at another moment the fire of his wrath is your carrier.
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قهر او را ضد لطفش کم شمر ** اتحاد هر دو بین اندر اثر
- Do not reckon his wrath to be the contrary of his mercy: behold the oneness of both (these qualities) in the effect.
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یک زمان چون خاک سبزت می‌کند ** یک زمان پر باد و گبزت می‌کند
- At one time he will make you green like the earth, at another time he will make you full of wind, and big.
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جسم عارف را دهد وصف جماد ** تا برو روید گل و نسرین شاد
- He gives the quality of inorganic things to the body of the knower (of God), in order that gay roses and eglantines may grow on it;
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لیک او بیند نبیند غیر او ** جز به مغز پاک ندهد خلد بو
- But he (the Shaykh) alone sees (them), none sees but he: Paradise yields no scent but to the purified brain.
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مغز را خالی کن از انکار یار ** تا که ریحان یابد از گلزار یار 550
- Empty your brain of disbelief in the Friend, that it may feel sweet odours from the rose-garden of the Friend;
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تا بیابی بوی خلد از یار من ** چون محمد بوی رحمن از یمن
- So that you may feel the scent of Paradise from my Friend, as Mohammed the scent of the Merciful (God) from Yemen.