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گفت یا رب بندگان هستند نیز ** که سببها را بدرند ای عزیز
- He (Azrael) replied, “O Lord, there are also servants (of Thine) who rend (shatter the illusion of) causes, O Almighty.”
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چشمشان باشد گذاره از سبب ** در گذشته از حجب از فضل رب 1700
- Their eye pierces through the cause: by the grace of the Lord, it has passed beyond (all) veils.
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سرمه‌ی توحید از کحال حال ** یافته رسته ز علت و اعتلال
- It has obtained the collyrium of Unity from the oculist of ecstasy and has been delivered from ailment and infirmity.
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ننگرند اندر تب و قولنج و سل ** راه ندهند این سببها را به دل
- They do not look at fever and dysentery and consumption: they do not admit these causes into their heart;
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زانک هر یک زین مرضها را دواست ** چون دوا نپذیرد آن فعل قضاست
- For every one of these diseases has its cure: when it becomes incurable, that is the act of the (Divine) Decree.
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هر مرض دارد دوا می‌دان یقین ** چون دوای رنج سرما پوستین
- Know for certain that every disease has its cure, as (for example) a fur is the cure for the pain of cold;
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چون خدا خواهد که مردی بفسرد ** سردی از صد پوستین هم بگذرد 1705
- (Yet), when God wills that a man shall be frozen, the cold penetrates even a hundred furs
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در وجودش لرزه‌ای بنهد که آن ** نه به جامه به شود نه از آشیان
- And puts into his body a tremor that will not be made better by (wrapping himself in) clothes or by (snuggling in) the house.
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چون قضا آید طبیب ابله شود ** وان دوا در نفع هم گمره شود
- When the Decree comes, the physician is made foolish, and the medicine too loses its beneficial effect.
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کی شود محجوب ادراک بصیر ** زین سببهای حجاب گول‌گیر
- How should the perception of the (mystic) seer be veiled by these (secondary) causes, which are a veil to catch the dolt?