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  • یار را چندین بجویم جد و چست  ** که بدانم که نمی‌بایست جست 
  • I will seek the Beloved with all my might and energy until I know whether I need not have sought (Him).
  • آن معیت کی رود در گوش من  ** تا نگردم گرد دوران زمن 
  • How should (the mystery of) His being with me enter my (spiritual) ear unless I wander round the world?
  • کی کنم من از معیت فهم راز  ** جز که از بعد سفرهای دراز 
  • How should I apprehend the mystery of His being with me except after (making) long journeys?”
  • حق معیت گفت و دل را مهر کرد  ** تا که عکس آید به گوش دل نه طرد  4180
  • God hath said that He is with us, but He hath sealed the heart in order that it (the real meaning) may enter the heart's ear contrariwise (indirectly), not directly.
  • چون سفرها کرد و داد راه داد  ** بعد از آن مهر از دل او بر گشاد 
  • When he (the seeker) has made (many) journeys and performed the duties of the Way, after that (and not before) the seal is removed from his heart.
  • چون خطایین آن حساب با صفا  ** گرددش روشن ز بعد دو خطا 
  • As (in the arithmetical method of) “the two errors,” the excellent (successful) calculation (only) becomes clear to him after two mistakes.
  • بعد از آن گوید اگر دانستمی  ** این معیت را کی او را جستمی 
  • After that, he says (to himself), “If I had known (the real nature of) this being with God, how should I have searched for Him?
  • دانش آن بود موقوف سفر  ** ناید آن دانش به تیزی فکر 
  • (But) the knowledge thereof depended on journeying: that knowledge is not to be gained by keenness of thought.”
  • آنچنان که وجه وام شیخ بود  ** بسته و موقوف گریه‌ی آن وجود  4185
  • ’Tis just as the payment of the Shaykh's debts was contingent and dependent on the weeping of that (young) creature.
  • کودک حلواییی بگریست زار  ** توخته شد وام آن شیخ کبار 
  • (When) the confectioner's boy wept bitterly, the debts of the venerable Shaykh were discharged.