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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.
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خاک شد صورت ولی معنی نشد ** هر که گوید شد تو گویش نه نشد 75
- In appearance they have become earth, in reality they have not; if any one say that they have, say to him, “No, they have not.”
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در جهان روح هر سه منتظر ** گه ز صورت هارب و گه مستقر
- In the spiritual world all three are waiting (for the Divine command), sometimes fleeing from form and sometimes taking abode (in it).
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امر آید در صور رو در رود ** باز هم از امرش مجرد می‌شود
- (When) the (Divine) command comes—“Enter into forms”— they enter (into them); likewise at His command they become divested (of form).