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غالبست و چیر در هر دو جهان ** شرح این غالب نگنجد در دهان 65
- He is victorious and mighty in both worlds: the description of this victor is not contained in the mouth.
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آب جیحون را اگر نتوان کشید ** هم ز قدر تشنگی نتوان برید
- Still, if it is impossible to drain (drink) the Oxus, one cannot deny one's self as much (water) as will slake thirst.
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گر شدی عطشان بحر معنوی ** فرجه‌ای کن در جزیره‌ی مثنوی
- If you are thirsting for the spiritual Ocean, make a breach in the island of the Mathnawí.
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فرجه کن چندانک اندر هر نفس ** مثنوی را معنوی بینی و بس
- Make such a great breach that at every moment you will see the Mathnawi to be only spiritual.
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باد که را ز آب جو چون وا کند ** آب یک‌رنگی خود پیدا کند
- When the wind sweeps away the straw from the (surface of) the river-water, the water displays its unicolouredness.
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شاخهای تازه‌ی مرجان ببین ** میوه‌های رسته ز آب جان ببین 70
- Behold the fresh branches of coral, behold the fruits grown from the water of the spirit!
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چون ز حرف و صوت و دم یکتا شود ** آن همه بگذارد و دریا شود
- When it (the Mathnawí) is made single (and denuded) of words and sounds and breaths, it leaves all that (behind) and becomes the (spiritual) Ocean.
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حرف‌گو و حرف‌نوش و حرفها ** هر سه جان گردند اندر انتها
- The speaker of the word and the hearer of the word and the words (themselves)—all three become spirit in the end.
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نان‌دهنده و نان‌ستان و نان‌پاک ** ساده گردند از صور گردند خاک
- The bread-giver and the bread-receiver and the wholesome bread become single (denuded) of their forms and are turned into earth,
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لیک معنیشان بود در سه مقام ** در مراتب هم ممیز هم مدام
- But their reality, in the three (above-mentioned) categories, is both differentiated in (these) grades and permanent.