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آفتابت گر بگیرد چون کنی ** آن سیاهی زو تو چون بیرون کنی
- If thy sun be eclipsed, what wilt thou do? How wilt thou expel that blackness from it?
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نه به درگاه خدا آری صداع ** که سیاهی را ببر وا ده شعاع 580
- Wilt not thou bring thy headache (trouble and pain) to the court of God, saying, ‘Take the blackness away, give back the radiance!’
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گر کشندت نیمشب خورشید کو ** تا بنالی یا امان خواهی ازو
- If they would kill thee at midnight, where is the sun, that thou shouldst wail (in supplication) and beg protection of it?
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حادثات اغلب به شب واقع شود ** وان زمان معبود تو غایب بود
- Calamities, for the most part, happen in the night; and at that time the object of thy worship is absent.
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سوی حق گر راستانه خم شوی ** وا رهی از اختران محرم شوی
- If thou sincerely bow (in prayer) to God, thou wilt be delivered from the stars: thou wilt become intimate (with God).
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چون شوی محرم گشایم با تو لب ** تا ببینی آفتابی نیمشب
- When thou becomest intimate, I will open my lips (to speak) with thee, that thou may’st behold a Sun at midnight.
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جز روان پاک او را شرق نه ** در طلوعش روز و شب را فرق نه 585
- It hath no Orient but the pure spirit: in (respect of) its rising, there is no difference between day and night.
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روز آن باشد که او شارق شود ** شب نماند شب چو او بارق شود
- ’Tis day when it (the Sun) rises; when it begins to shine, night is night no more.
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چون نماید ذره پیش آفتاب ** همچنانست آفتاب اندر لباب
- (Such) as the mote appears in the presence of the sun, even such is the sun (of this world) in the pure substance (of the Light of God).
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آفتابی را که رخشان میشود ** دیده پیشش کند و حیران میشود
- The sun that becomes resplendent, and before which the (keenest) sight is blunted and dazzled—
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همچو ذره بینیش در نور عرش ** پیش نور بی حد موفور عرش
- Thou wilt see it as a mote in the light of the Divine Throne, (a mote) beside the illimitable abounding light of the Divine Throne.
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خوار و مسکین بینی او را بیقرار ** دیده را قوت شده از کردگار 590
- Thou wilt deem it base and lowly and impermanent, (when) strength has come to thine (inward) eye from the Creator.”
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کیمیایی که ازو یک ماثری ** بر دخان افتاد گشت آن اختری
- (The Divine Light is) the Philosophers' Stone from which a single impression fell on the (primal) vapour, and it (the vapour) became a star;
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نادر اکسیری که از وی نیم تاب ** بر ظلامی زد به گردش آفتاب
- The unique elixir of which half a gleam struck upon a (region of) darkness and made it the sun;
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بوالعجب میناگری کز یک عمل ** بست چندین خاصیت را بر زحل
- The marvellous alchemist who by a single operation fastened all these properties on Saturn.
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باقی اخترها و گوهرهای جان ** هم برین مقیاس ای طالب بدان
- Know, O seeker, that the remaining planets and the spiritual substances are (to be judged) according to the same standard.
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دیدهی حسی زبون آفتاب ** دیدهی ربانیی جو و بیاب 595
- The sensuous eye is subject to the sun: seek and find a divine eye,
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تا زبون گردد به پیش آن نظر ** شعشعات آفتاب با شرر
- In order that the beams of the flaming sun may become subject (abased) before that vision;
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که آن نظر نوری و این ناری بود ** نار پیش نور بس تاری بود
- For that vision is luminous, while these (sunbeams) are igneous: fire is very dark in comparison with light.
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کرامات و نور شیخ عبدالله مغربی قدس الله سره
- The miraculous gifts and illumination of Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí, may God sanctify his spirit.
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گفت عبدالله شیخ مغربی ** شصت سال از شب ندیدم من شبی
- Shaykh ‘Abdullah Maghribí said, “During sixty years I never perceived in night the quality of night.
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من ندیدم ظلمتی در شصت سال ** نه به روز و نه به شب نه ز اعتلال
- During sixty years I never experienced any darkness, neither by day nor by night nor from infirmity.”
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صوفیان گفتند صدق قال او ** شب همیرفتیم در دنبال او 600
- The Súfís declared his words to be true: “During the night we would follow him
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در بیابانهای پر از خار و گو ** او چو ماه بدر ما را پیشرو
- Into deserts filled with thorns and ditches, he going in front of us like the full moon.
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روی پس ناکرده میگفتی به شب ** هین گو آمد میل کن در سوی چپ
- Without looking behind him, he would say, (though it was) at night-time, ‘Hark! here is a ditch: turn to the left!’
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باز گفتی بعد یک دم سوی راست ** میل کن زیرا که خاری پیش پاست
- Then, after a little while, he would say, ‘Turn to the right, because a thorn is before your feet.’