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گر بگویم نک نشانم فوت شد ** چون نشان شد فوت وقت موت شد
- If I tell it, lo, my sign is missed, and when the sign is missed, the hour of death is come.”
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بنگری در روی هر مرد سوار ** گویدت منگر مرا دیوانهوار
- You peer into the face of every rider: he says to you, “Do not look at me like a madman.”
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گوییاش من صاحبی گم کردهام ** رو به جستجوی او آوردهام 1695
- You say to him, “I have lost a friend; I have set out to seek him.
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دولتت پاینده بادا ای سوار ** رحم کن بر عاشقان معذور دار
- May thy fortune be lasting, O rider! Have pity on lovers and excuse (them).”
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چون طلب کردی به جد آمد نظر ** جد خطا نکند چنین آمد خبر
- When you have made search (and your) looking has been in earnest—earnest endeavour does not fail: so the Tradition has come down (from the Prophet)—
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ناگهان آمد سواری نیک بخت ** پس گرفت اندر کنارت سخت سخت
- Suddenly comes a blessed rider; then he clasps you very closely to his breast.
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تو شدی بیهوش و افتادی به طاق ** بیخبر گفت اینت سالوس و نفاق
- You become senseless and fall to vaunting (ecstatically); the ignorant (uninitiated) man says, “Here is fraud and hypocrisy.”
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او چه میبیند در او این شور چیست ** او نداند کان نشان وصل کیست 1700
- How does he see what this enthusiasm in him (the enraptured person) is? He knows not (who it is) with whom that is the sign of union.
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این نشان در حق او باشد که دید ** آن دگر را کی نشان آید پدید
- This sign concerns (only) him that has seen (before): how should the sign appear to the other one?
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هر زمان کز وی نشانی میرسید ** شخص را جانی به جانی میرسید
- Every moment that a sign was coming from Him, a (new) spirit was coming into that person's spirit.
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ماهی بیچاره را پیش آمد آب ** این نشانها تلک آیات الکتاب
- Water has reached the helpless fish. These signs are (those mentioned in the text) those are the signs of the Book.
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پس نشانیها که اندر انبیاست ** خاص آن جان را بود کاو آشناست
- Hence the signs which are in the prophets are peculiar to (known exclusively by) him who is a friend (knower and lover of God).
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این سخن ناقص بماند و بیقرار ** دل ندارم بیدلم معذور دار 1705
- This discourse remains imperfect and unsettled; I have no heart (understanding), I am out of my mind: excuse me.
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ذرهها را کی تواند کس شمرد ** خاصه آن کاو عشق عقل او ببرد
- How can any one number the motes, especially that one whose understanding has been transported by Love?
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میشمارم برگهای باغ را ** میشمارم بانگ کبک و زاغ را
- Shall I number the leaves of the garden? Shall I number the cries of the partridge and the crow?
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در شمار اندر نیاید لیک من ** میشمارم بهر رشد ممتحن
- They come not into computation, but I enumerate them for the guidance of him that is put to trial.
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نحس کیوان یا که سعد مشتری ** ناید اندر حصر گر چه بشمری
- The sinister influence of Saturn and the auspicious influence of Jupiter come not into computation, though you may enumerate;
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لیک هم بعضی از این هر دو اثر ** شرح باید کرد یعنی نفع و ضر 1710
- But still, some of these two (diverse) effects must be explained—that is, the benefit and injury (which they involve)—
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تا شود معلوم آثار قضا ** شمه ای مر اهل سعد و نحس را
- In order that some little part of the effects of the (Divine) decree may be made known to the good-fortuned and the ill-starred.
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طالع آن کس که باشد مشتری ** شاد گردد از نشاط و سروری
- He whose ascendant (ruling planet) is Jupiter will be rejoiced by vivacity (of disposition) and eminence;
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و انکه را طالع زحل از هر شرور ** احتیاطش لازم آید در امور
- And it will be necessary for him whose ascendant is Saturn to take precautions against every (kind of) mischief in his affairs.
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گر بگویم آن زحل استاره را ** ز آتشش سوزد مر آن بیچاره را
- If I should speak to one whose (ruling) planet is Saturn of his (Saturn's) fire, it (my discourse) would burn (torment) that hapless man.
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اذکروا الله شاه ما دستور داد ** اندر آتش دید ما را نور داد 1715
- Our King (God) has given permission, (saying), “Commemorate Allah”: He saw us in the fire and gave us light.
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گفت اگر چه پاکم از ذکر شما ** نیست لایق مر مرا تصویرها
- He has said, “Although I far transcend your commemoration (of Me), (and although) the pictorial ideas (of human speech) are not suitable to Me,
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لیک هرگز مست تصویر و خیال ** در نیابد ذات ما را بیمثال
- Yet he that is intoxicated with (pictorial) imagination and fancy will never apprehend My essence without (the help of) similitude.”