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آن گلوی ابتلا بد وین گلو ** فارغ از اسراف و آمن از غلو
- The former was the gullet subject to probation, while this (saintly) gullet was free from immoderation and secure from exorbitance.
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امر و فرمان بود نه حرص و طمع ** آن چنان جان حرص را نبود تبع 2710
- (In the case of the Shaykh) ’twas (by) the (Divine) command and order, not (from) greed and cupidity: a spirit like that is not a follower of greed.
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گر بگوید کیمیا مس را بده ** تو به من خود را طمع نبود فره
- If the elixir say to the copper, “Give thyself up to me,” cupidity does not prevail (over it).
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گنجهای خاک تا هفتم طبق ** عرضه کرده بود پیش شیخ حق
- God had offered to the Shaykh (all) the treasures of the earth down to the seventh tier;
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شیخ گفتا خالقا من عاشقم ** گر بجویم غیر تو من فاسقم
- (But) the Shaykh said, “O Creator, I am a lover: if I seek aught but Thee, I am impious.
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هشت جنت گر در آرم در نظر ** ور کنم خدمت من از خوف سقر
- If I should bring into view the Eight Paradises, or if I should serve Thee from fear of Hell,
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مومنی باشم سلامت‌جوی من ** زانک این هر دو بود حظ بدن 2715
- (Then) I am (only) a believer seeking salvation, for both these (motives) are concerned with the body.”
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عاشقی کز عشق یزدان خورد قوت ** صد بدن پیشش نیرزد تره‌توت
- A hundred bodies are not worth a bean in the eyes of the lover who has received nutriment from God's love;
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وین بدن که دارد آن شیخ فطن ** چیز دگر گشت کم خوانش بدن
- And this body which the Shaykh of insight possesses has become something different: do not call it a body.
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عاشق عشق خدا وانگاه مزد ** جبرئیل متمن وانگاه دزد
- (To be) in love with God's love and then (desire) a wage! (To be) a trusted Gabriel and then a thief!