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  • لوح محفوظ است پیشانی یار  ** راز کونینش نماید آشکار 
  • The brow of the Friend is a Guarded Tablet: to him (his friend) it reveals plainly the secret of the two worlds.

  • هادی راهست یار اندر قدوم  ** مصطفی زین گفت اصحابی نجوم 
  • The Friend is the guide on the way during (his friend's) advance: hence Mustafá (Mohammed) said, “My Companions are (like) the stars.”

  • نجم اندر ریگ و دریا رهنماست  ** چشم اندر نجم نه کو مقتداست 
  • The star shows the way in (desert) sands and on the sea: fix thine eye on the (spiritual) Star, for he is the one to be followed.

  • چشم را با روی او می‌دار جفت  ** گرد منگیزان ز راه بحث و گفت  2645
  • Keep thine eye always paired with (unseparated from) his face: do not stir up dust by way of discussion and argument,

  • زانک گردد نجم پنهان زان غبار  ** چشم بهتر از زبان با عثار 
  • Because the Star will be hidden by that dust: the eye is better than the stumbling tongue.

  • تا بگوید او که وحیستش شعار  ** کان نشاند گرد و ننگیزد غبار 
  • (Be silent) in order that he may speak whose innermost garment is (Divine) inspiration which lays the dust and does not stir up trouble.

  • چون شد آدم مظهر وحی و وداد  ** ناطقه‌ی او علم الاسما گشاد 
  • When Adam became the theatre of (Divine) inspiration and love, his rational soul revealed (to him) the knowledge of the Names.

  • نام هر چیزی چنانک هست آن  ** از صحیفه‌ی دل روی گشتش زبان 
  • His tongue, (reading) from the page of his heart, recited the name of everything as it (really) is.

  • فاش می‌گفتی زبان از ریتش  ** جمله را خاصیت و ماهیتش  2650
  • Through his (inward) vision his tongue was divulging the properties and quiddities of all things.

  • آنچنان نامی که اشیا را سزد  ** نه چنانک حیز را خواند اسد 
  • (It was bestowing) such a name as fits the things (named), not so as to call a catamite a lion (hero).