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زر کان بود آب و گل ما زرگریم ** که گهش خلخال و گه خاتم بریم
- The water and clay was (like) gold of the mine: We are the goldsmith; for We carve it now into an anklet, now into a seal.
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گه حمایلهای شمشیرش کنیم ** گاه بند گردن شیرش کنیم 1000
- Now We make it the shoulder-belt for a sword, now the chain on the neck of a lion.
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گه ترنج تخت بر سازیم ازو ** گاه تاج فرقهای ملک‌جو
- Now We fashion from it the ball (on the top) of a throne, now the diadem on the heads (of them) that seek empire.
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عشقها داریم با این خاک ما ** زانک افتادست در قعده‌ی رضا
- We have great affections towards this earth, because it lies in the posture of acquiescence.
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گه چنین شاهی ازو پیدا کنیم ** گه هم او را پیش شه شیدا کنیم
- Now We produce from it a (spiritual) king like this; now We make it frenzied (with love) in the presence of the king:
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صد هزاران عاشق و معشوق ازو ** در فغان و در نفیر و جست و جو
- On account of him hundreds of thousands of lovers and loved ones are in lamentation and outcry and search.
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کار ما اینست بر کوری آن ** که به کار ما ندارد میل جان 1005
- This is Our work, to the confusion of that one who hath no spiritual inclination towards Our work.
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این فضیلت خاک را زان رو دهیم ** که نواله پیش بی‌برگان نهیم
- We confer this eminence on the earth for the same reason that We place a portion of food before the destitute,
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زانک دارد خاک شکل اغبری ** وز درون دارد صفات انوری
- Because the earth has the external form of dunness, while inwardly it has the qualities of luminosity.
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ظاهرش با باطنش گشته به جنگ ** باطنش چون گوهر و ظاهر چو سنگ
- Its outward (appearance) has come to be at war with its inward (reality): its inward is like a jewel and its outward like a (common) stone.