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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.
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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).
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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.
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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?
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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;
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آب گشتی بی‌عروق و بی‌گره ** ز آب داود هوا کردی زره
- They would become water (formless and) devoid of roots and knobs: the air, David-like, would make of the water a mail-coat (of ripples),
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پس شدی درمان جان هر درخت ** هر درختی از قدومش نیک‌بخت
- And then it (the water) would become a life-giving medicine for every tree: every tree (would be made) fortunate by its advent.
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آن یخی بفسرده در خود مانده ** لا مساسی با درختان خوانده
- (But) the frozen ice that remains (locked) within itself cries to the trees,Touch me not!
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لیس یالف لیس یلف جسمه ** لیس الا شح نفس قسمه 3435
- Its body makes none its friend nor is it made a friend by any: its portion is naught but miserly selfishness.
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نیست ضایع زو شود تازه جگر ** لیک نبود پیک و سلطان خضر
- It is not wasted (entirely), the heart is refreshed by it; but it is not the herald and lord of (the vernal) greenery.