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بوی را پوشیده و مکنون کند ** چشم مست خویشتن را چون کند
- He may disguise and conceal the scent, (but) how will he hide his intoxicated eye?
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خود نه آن بویست این که اندر جهان ** صد هزاران پردهاش دارد نهان
- In sooth this is not a scent that thousands of veils will keep hidden in the world.
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پر شد از تیزی او صحرا و دشت ** دشت چه کز نه فلک هم در گذشت
- The desert and plain are filled with its pungency. What (of the) plain? for it hath passed even beyond the nine spheres (of Heaven).
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این سر خم را به کهگل در مگیر ** کین برهنه نیست خود پوششپذیر
- Do not daub the head of the jar with mortar, for indeed this naked one does not admit of covering.
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لطف کن ای رازدان رازگو ** آنچ بازت صید کردش بازگو 1825
- Show kindness: O thou who knowest and canst tell the mystery, declare that which thy falcon (thy spirit) has made its prey.”
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گفت بوی بوالعجب آمد به من ** همچنانک مر نبی را از یمن
- He said, “A marvellous scent is come to me, even as (a scent came) for the Prophet's sake from Yemen;
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که محمد گفت بر دست صبا ** از یمن میآیدم بوی خدا
- For Mohammed said, ‘The scent of God is coming to me from Yemen, (wafted) on the hand of the zephyr.’”
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بوی رامین میرسد از جان ویس ** بوی یزدان میرسد هم از اویس
- The scent of Rámín is coming from the soul of Wís; the scent of God, too, is coming from Uways.
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از اویس و از قرن بوی عجب ** مر نبی را مست کرد و پر طرب
- From Uways and from Qaran a wondrous scent made the Prophet drunken and full of rapture.
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چون اویس از خویش فانی گشته بود ** آن زمینی آسمانی گشته بود 1830
- Since Uways had passed away from himself, that earthly one (Uways) had become heavenly.
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آن هلیلهی پروریده در شکر ** چاشنی تلخیش نبود دگر
- The myrobalan conserved in sugar—its bitter taste is not (retained) any more.
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آن هلیلهی رسته از ما و منی ** نقش دارد از هلیله طعم نی
- (Similarly) the (spiritual) myrobalan that is freed from egoism hath (only) the appearance of myrobalan, (but) not the flavour.
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این سخن پایان ندارد باز گرد ** تا چه گفت از وحی غیب آن شیرمرد
- This topic hath no end. Return (to the story), that (we may see) what that holy man (Báyazíd) said, (moved) by inspiration from the World Unseen.
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قول رسول صلی الله علیه و سلم انی لاجد نفس الرحمن من قبل الیمن
- The words of the Prophet, may God bless and save him, "Verily, I feel the Breath of the Merciful (God) from the direction of Yemen."
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گفت زین سو بوی یاری میرسد ** کاندرین ده شهریاری میرسد
- He (Báyazíd) said, “The scent of a friend is coming from this quarter, for a (spiritual) monarch is coming into this village.
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بعد چندین سال میزاید شهی ** میزند بر آسمانها خرگهی 1835
- After such and such a number of years a king will be born (here): he will pitch a tent above the heavens.
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رویش از گلزار حق گلگون بود ** از من او اندر مقام افزون بود
- His face will be coloured with roses from the rosery of God: he will surpass me in station.”
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چیست نامش گفت نامش بوالحسن ** حلیهاش وا گفت ز ابرو و ذقن
- (The disciple asked), “What is his name?” He replied, “His name is Bu ’l- Hasan,” and described his features—his eyebrows and chin;
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قد او و رنگ او و شکل او ** یک به یک واگفت از گیسو و رو
- He described his height and his complexion and his figure and spoke in detail of his locks of hair and his face.
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حلیههای روح او را هم نمود ** از صفات و از طریقه و جا و بود
- He also declared his spiritual features—his qualities and the way (he should follow in his religion) and his (spiritual) rank and estate.
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حلیهی تن همچو تن عاریتیست ** دل بر آن کم نه که آن یک ساعتیست 1840
- The bodily features, like the body (itself), are borrowed (transient): set not your heart on them, for they are lasting (only) one hour.
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حلیهی روح طبیعی هم فناست ** حلیهی آن جان طلب کان بر سماست
- The features of the natural (animal) spirit also are perishable: seek the features of that spirit which is above the sky.
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جسم او همچون چراغی بر زمین ** نور او بالای سقف هفتمین
- Its body is on the earth, like a lamp, (but) its light is above the Seventh Roof (of heaven).
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آن شعاع آفتاب اندر وثاق ** قرص او اندر چهارم چارطاق
- Those rays of the sun are in the house, (but) their orb is in the Fourth Dome (of heaven).
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نقش گل در زیربینی بهر لاغ ** بوی گل بر سقف و ایوان دماغ
- The form of the rose is (placed) beneath the nose for idle pleasure's sake, (but) the scent of the rose is on the roof and palace of the brain.
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مرد خفته در عدن دیده فرق ** عکس آن بر جسم افتاده عرق 1845
- A man asleep sees terror (dreams of something which terrifies him) at Aden: the reflexion thereof appears as sweat on his body.