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خفض و رفع روزگار با کرب ** نوع دیگر نیم روز و نیم شب 1850
- The lowness and loftiness of distressful Time are of another sort: one half day and (the other) half night.
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خفض و رفع این مزاج ممترج ** گاه صحت گاه رنجوری مضج
- The lowness and loftiness of this blended (bodily) temperament (of ours) are now health and now sickness that causes (us) to cry out (in pain).
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هم‌چنین دان جمله احوال جهان ** قحط و جدب و صلح و جنگ از افتتان
- Know that even so are all the changing conditions of the world—famine and drought and peace and war—(which arise) from (Divine) probation.
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این جهان با این دو پر اندر هواست ** زین دو جانها موطن خوف و رجاست
- By means of these two wings this world is (kept up like a bird) in the air; by means of these twain (all) souls are habitations of fear and hope,
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تا جهان لرزان بود مانند برگ ** در شمال و در سموم بعث و مرگ
- To the end that the world may be (always) trembling like a leaf in the north wind and simoom of resurrection and death,
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تا خم یک‌رنگی عیسی ما ** بشکند نرخ خم صدرنگ را 1855
- (And) that (ultimately) the vat of the unicolority of our Jesus may destroy the value of the vat containing a hundred dyes;
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کان جهان هم‌چون نمکسار آمدست ** هر چه آنجا رفت بی‌تلوین شدست
- For that world (of Unity) is like a salt-mine: whatever has gone thither has become exempt from coloration (dyeing with various colours).
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خاک را بین خلق رنگارنگ را ** می‌کند یک رنگ اندر گورها
- Look at earth: it makes many-coloured (diverse) humankind to be (all) of one colour in their graves.
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این نمکسار جسوم ظاهرست ** خود نمکسار معانی دیگرست
- This is the salt-mine for visible (material) bodies, (but) in sooth the salt-mine for ideal (supersensible) things is different.
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آن نمکسار معانی معنویست ** از ازل آن تا ابد اندر نویست
- The salt-mine for ideal things is ideal (spiritual and real): it remains new from eternity unto everlasting.