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داد حق با تو در آمیزد چو جان ** آنچنان که آن تو باشی و تو آن
- The gifts of God are mingled with you like the spirit, in such wise that you are they and they are you.
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گر نماند اشتهای نان و آب ** بدهدت بی این دو قوت مستطاب
- If you have no more appetite for bread and water, He will give you goodly nourishment without these twain.
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فربهی گر رفت حق در لاغری ** فربهی پنهانت بخشد آن سری
- If your fatness is gone, God will give you from yonder a (spiritual) fatness concealed in (bodily) leanness.
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چون پری را قوت از بو می‌دهد ** هر ملک را قوت جان او می‌دهد
- Since He gives the peri nourishment from scent and gives every angel nourishment from spirit,
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جان چه باشد که تو سازی زو سند ** حق به عشق خویش زنده‌ت می‌کند 3170
- What is the (animal) soul that you should make a support of (should rely upon) it? God will make you living by His love.
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زو حیات عشق خواه و جان مخواه ** تو ازو آن رزق خواه و نان مخواه
- Ask of Him the life of love and do not ask for the (animal) soul: ask of Him that (spiritual) provision and do not ask for bread.
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خلق را چون آب دان صاف و زلال ** اندر آن تابان صفات ذوالجلال
- Know that (the world of) created beings is like pure and limpid water in which the attributes of the Almighty are shining.
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علمشان و عدلشان و لطفشان ** چون ستاره‌ی چرخ در آب روان
- Their knowledge and their justice and their clemency are like a star of heaven (reflected) in running water.
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پادشاهان مظهر شاهی حق ** فاضلان مرآت آگاهی حق
- Kings are the theatre for the manifestation of God's kingship; the learned (divines) are the mirrors for God's wisdom.
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قرنها بگذشت و این قرن نویست ** ماه آن ماهست آب آن آب نیست 3175
- Generations have passed away, and this is a new generation: the moon is the same moon, the water is not the same water.