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گوشت پاره که زبان آمد از او ** میرود سیلاب حکمت همچو جو
- The piece of flesh which is the tongue—from it the flood of Wisdom is flowing, like a stream,
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سوی سوراخی که نامش گوشهاست ** تا بباغ جان که میوهاش هوشهاست
- Towards a cavity, whereof the name is “ears,” up to the orchard of the (rational) soul, whereof the fruit is intellections.
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شاه راه باغ جانها شرع اوست ** باغ و بستانهای عالم فرع اوست
- Its main course is the highway of the orchard of souls; the orchards and gardens of the world are its branches.
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اصل و سرچشمهی خوشی آن است آن ** زود تجری تحتها الأنهار خوان 2455
- That, that, is the source and fountainhead of joy: quick, recite (the text), (gardens) beneath which flow the rivers.
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تتمهای نصیحت رسول صلی الله علیه و آله بیمار را
- Conclusion of the admonishment given by the Prophet, God bless and save him, to the sick man.
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گفت پیغمبر مر آن بیمار را ** چون عیادت کرد یار زار را
- The Prophet said to the sick man, when he visited (his) suffering friend,
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که مگر نوعی دعایی کردهای ** از جهالت زهربایی خوردهای
- “Maybe you have made a prayer of some (peculiar) sort, and from ignorance have (as it were) eaten some poisoned food.
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یاد آور چه دعا میگفتهای ** چون ز مکر نفس میآشفتهای
- Bring to mind what (sort of) a prayer you said when you were being vexed by the guile of the fleshly soul.”
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گفت یادم نیست الا همتی ** دار با من یادم آید ساعتی
- He answered, “I do not remember; but direct a (spiritual) influence towards me, and it (the prayer) will come to my memory in a moment.”
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از حضور نور بخش مصطفا ** پیش خاطر آمد او را آن دعا 2460
- Through the light-giving presence of Mustafá (Mohammed), that prayer came into his mind;
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همت پیغمبر روشنکده ** پیش خاطر آمدش آن گم شده
- (From) the aspiration of the Prophet who dwells in light there came into his mind that which had been lost;
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تافت ز آن روزن که از دل تا دل است ** روشنی که فرق حق و باطل است
- Through the window which is between heart and heart flashed the light that separates truth and falsehood.
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گفت اینک یادم آمد ای رسول ** آن دعا که گفتهام من بو الفضول
- He said, “Look now, I have remembered, O Prophet, the prayer which I, impertinent fool, spoke.
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چون گرفتار گنه میآمدم ** غرقه دست اندر حشایش میزدم
- When I was being caught in (the toils of) sin, and drowning (therein) was clutching at straws––
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از تو تهدید و وعیدی میرسید ** مجرمان را از عذاب بس شدید 2465
- (Whilst) there was coming from thee to sinners a threat and menace of punishment exceedingly severe––
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مضطرب میگشتم و چاره نبود ** بند محکم بود و قفل ناگشود
- (And) I was becoming agitated, and there was no help (for me), (since) there were chains made fast and a lock not (to be) opened:
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نی مقام صبر و نه راه گریز ** نی امید توبه نه جای ستیز
- Neither room for patience nor means of flight, neither hope of repenting nor opportunity for rebelling
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من چو هاروت و چو ماروت از حزن ** آه میکردم که ای خلاق من
- I, like Hárút and Márút was crying in sorrow, ‘Alas!’ and saying, ‘O my Creator!’”
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از خطر هاروت و ماروت آشکار ** چاه بابل را بکردند اختیار
- Because of the dangers (of the Last Judgement) Hárút and Márút openly chose the pit of Babylon,
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تا عذاب آخرت اینجا کشند ** گربزند و عاقل و ساحروشاند 2470
- So that they might suffer here (in this world) the punishment of the world to come; and they are cunning and intelligent and magician-like.
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نیک کردند و بجای خویش بود ** سهلتر باشد ز آتش رنج دود
- They acted well, and ‘twas fitly done: the pain of smoke is lighter than (that of) fire.
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حد ندارد وصف رنج آن جهان ** سهل باشد رنج دنیا پیش آن
- The pain of that (future) world is beyond description; light is the pain of this world beside it.
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ای خنک آن کاو جهادی میکند ** بر بدن زجری و دادی میکند
- Oh, happy he that wages a holy war (of self-mortification), and puts a restraint upon the body and deals justice (against it),
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تا ز رنج آن جهانی وارهد ** بر خود این رنج عبادت مینهد
- And, in order that he may be delivered from the pain of that world, lays upon himself this pain of serving God.
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من همیگفتم که یا رب آن عذاب ** هم در این عالم بران بر من شتاب 2475
- “I was saying, ‘O Lord, quickly inflict on me in this world that punishment,
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تا در آن عالم فراغت باشدم ** در چنین درخواست حلقه میزدم
- So that I may have exemption (from it) in yonder world.’ About such-like a request was I knocking at the door .