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این نوشته گر چه خود دعوی بود ** هم نوشته شاهد معنی بود 3585
- Although this written (statement) itself is a (mere) assertion, still the script is evidence of the reality (of the assertion).
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یا بگوید صوفیی دیدی تو دوش ** در میان خواب سجاده به دوش
- Or a Súfí may say, “Last night, while asleep, you saw some one with a prayer carpet on his shoulder.
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من بدم آن و آن چه گفتم خواب در ** با تو اندر خواب در شرح نظر
- That was I; and what I said to you in the dream, whilst you slumbered, in explanation of clairvoyance—
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گوش کن چون حلقه اندر گوش کن ** آن سخن را پیشوای هوش کن
- Give ear (to it), put it in your ear like an ear-ring: make those words (of mine) your mind's guide.”
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چون ترا یاد آید آن خواب این سخن ** معجز نو باشد و زر کهن
- When you recollect the dream, these words (of his) are (as real to you as) a new miracle or old gold.
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گر چه دعوی مینماید این ولی ** جان صاحب واقعه گوید بلی 3590
- Although this seems to be (mere) assertion (on his part), yet the soul of the dreamer says, “Yes, (it is true).”
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پس چو حکمت ضالهی مومن بود ** آن ز هر که بشنود موقن بود
- Therefore, since Wisdom is the faithful believer's stray camel, he knows it with certainty, from whomsoever he has heard it;
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چون که خود را پیش او یابد فقط ** چون بود شک چون کند او را غلط
- And when he finds himself absolutely in front of it, how should there be doubt? How should he mistake it?
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تشنهای را چون بگویی تو شتاب ** در قدح آب است بستان زود آب
- When you say to a thirsty man, “Make haste! there is water in the cup: take the water at once,”
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هیچ گوید تشنه کاین دعوی است رو ** از برم ای مدعی مهجور شو
- Will the thirsty man say in any event?—“This is (mere) assertion: go from my side, O pretender! Get thee far away!
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یا گواه و حجتی بنما که این ** جنس آب است و از آن ماء معین 3595
- Or (else) produce some testimony and proof that this is of aqueous kind and consists of the water that runs from a spring.
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یا به طفل شیر مادر بانگ زد ** که بیا من مادرم هان ای ولد
- Or (suppose that) a mother cries to her suckling babe, “Come, I am mother: hark, my child!”—
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طفل گوید مادرا حجت بیار ** تا که با شیرت بگیرم من قرار
- Will the babe say?—“O mother, bring the proof (of it), so that I may take comfort in thy milk.”
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در دل هر امتی کز حق مزه ست ** روی و آواز پیمبر معجزه ست
- When in the heart of any community there is savour (spiritual perception) from God, the face and voice of the prophet are (as) an evidentiary miracle.
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چون پیمبر از برون بانگی زند ** جان امت در درون سجده کند
- When the prophet utters a cry from without, the soul of the community falls to worship within,
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ز انکه جنس بانگ او اندر جهان ** از کسی نشنیده باشد گوش جان 3600
- Because never in the world will the soul's ear have heard from any one a cry of the same kind as his.
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آن غریب از ذوق آواز غریب ** از زبان حق شنود انی قریب
- That stranger (the soul), by immediate perception of the strange (wondrous) voice, has heard from God's tongue (the words), “Verily I am near.”
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سجده کردن یحیی علیه السلام در شکم مادر مسیح را علیه السلام
- How Yahyá, on whom be peace, in his mother's womb bowed in worship to the Messiah (Jesus), on whom be peace.
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مادر یحیی به مریم در نهفت ** پیشتر از وضع حمل خویش گفت
- The mother of Yahyá, before disburdening herself (of him), said in secret to Mary,
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که یقین دیدم درون تو شهی است ** کاو اولو العزم و رسول آگهی است
- “I see (it) with certainty, within thee is a King who is possessed of firm purpose and is an Apostle endowed with knowledge (of God).
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چون برابر اوفتادم با تو من ** کرد سجده حمل من اندر زمن
- When I happened to meet thee, my burden (the unborn child) bowed in worship, O intelligent one.
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این جنین مر آن جنین را سجده کرد ** کز سجودش در تنم افتاد درد 3605
- This embryo bowed in worship to that embryo, so that pain arose in my body from its bowing.”
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گفت مریم من درون خویش هم ** سجدهای دیدم از این طفل شکم
- Mary said, “I also felt within me a bowing performed by this babe in the womb.”
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اشکال آوردن بر این قصه
- On raising a difficulty as to this story.
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ابلهان گویند کاین افسانه را ** خط بکش زیرا دروغ است و خطا
- The foolish say, “Cancel this tale, because it is false and erroneous.
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ز انکه مریم وقت وضع حمل خویش ** بود از بیگانه دور و هم ز خویش
- Because Mary at the time of her delivery was far away both from strangers and kinfolk.
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از برون شهر آن شیرین فسون ** تا نشد فارغ نیامد خود درون
- Until that woman of sweet address was delivered outside of the town, she indeed came not into it.