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چونک ریگی آرد شد بهر خلیل ** دانک معزولست گندم ای نبیل
- Since sand was turned into flour for the Friend (Abraham), know that the wheat is deposed from its office, O noble one.
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صورت از بی‌صورت آید در وجود ** هم‌چنانک از آتشی زادست دود
- Form is brought into existence by the Formless, just as smoke is produced by a fire.
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کمترین عیب مصور در خصال ** چون پیاپی بینیش آید ملال
- The least blemish in the qualities of that which is endowed with form becomes annoying when you regard it continually;
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حیرت محض آردت بی‌صورتی ** زاده صد گون آلت از بی‌آلتی
- (But) Formlessness throws you into absolute bewilderment: from non-instrumentality a hundred kinds of instruments are born.
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بی ز دستی دست‌ها بافد همی ** جان جان سازد مصور آدمی 3715
- Handlessness is weaving (fashioning) hands: the Soul of the soul makes a (fully) formed Man.
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آنچنان که اندر دل از هجر و وصال ** می‌شود بافیده گوناگون خیال
- ’Tis like as (when) from separation and union diverse fancies are woven (conceived) in the heart.
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هیچ ماند این مثر با اثر ** هیچ ماند بانگ و نوحه با ضرر
- Does this cause ever resemble its effect? Does the cry (of pain) and lamentation ever resemble the loss (that caused it)?
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نوحه را صورت ضرر بی‌صورتست ** دست خایند از ضرر کش نیست دست
- The lamentation has a form, the loss is formless: they (the losers) gnaw their hands on account of a loss that has no hand.
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این مثل نالایقست ای مستدل ** حیله‌ی تفهیم را جهد المقل
- This comparison, O seeker of guidance, does not fit (the case), (but) ’tis the best effort a poor man can make to explain it.
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صنع بی‌صورت بکارد صورتی ** تن بروید با حواس و آلتی 3720
- The formless working (of God) sows (the seed of) a form (idea), (whence) there grows up a body endowed with senses and a (rational) faculty,