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  • حکمت این اضداد را با هم ببست  ** ای قصاب این گردران با گردنست 
  • (The Divine) Wisdom has bound these contraries together: O butcher, this fleshy thigh-bone goes along with the neck.

  • روح بی‌قالب نداند کار کرد  ** قالبت بی‌جان فسرده بود و سرد 
  • The spirit cannot function without the body; your body is frozen (inanimate) and cold (inert) without the spirit.

  • قالبت پیدا و آن جانت نهان  ** راست شد زین هر دو اسباب جهان 
  • Your body is visible, while your spirit is hidden from view: the business of the world is conducted by means of them both.

  • خاک را بر سر زنی سر نشکند  ** آب را بر سر زنی در نشکند  3425
  • If you throw earth at (some one's) head, his head will not be broken; if you throw water at his head, it will not be broken.

  • گر تو می‌خواهی که سر را بشکنی  ** آب را و خاک را بر هم زنی 
  • If you wish to break his head, you bring the earth and the water into contact with each other (and make a lump of clay).

  • چون شکستی سر رود آبش به اصل  ** خاک سوی خاک آید روز فصل 
  • When you have broken your head, its water (the spirit) returns to its source, and earth returns to earth on the day of separation.

  • حکمتی که بود حق را ز ازدواج  ** گشت حاصل از نیاز و از لجاج 
  • The providential purpose that God had—namely, humble supplication or obstinate contumacy—was fulfilled by means of the marriage (of body and spirit).

  • باشد آنگه ازدواجات دگر  ** لا سمع اذن و لا عین بصر 
  • Then (afterwards) there are other marriages that no ear hath heard and no eye hath seen.

  • گر شنیدی اذن کی ماندی اذن  ** یا کجا کردی دگر ضبط سخن  3430
  • If the ear had heard, how should the ear have remained (in action) or how should it have apprehended words any more?

  • گر بدیدی برف و یخ خورشید را  ** از یخی برداشتی اومید را 
  • If the snow and ice were to behold the sun, they would despair of (retaining their) iciness;