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هر که را باشد ز سینه فتح باب ** او ز هر شهری ببیند آفتاب
- Every one in whose breast the gate is opened will behold from every city the sun (shining).
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حق پدید است از میان دیگران ** همچو ماه اندر میان اختران 1400
- God is manifest amongst others as the moon amidst the stars.
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دو سر انگشت بر دو چشم نه ** هیچ بینی از جهان انصاف ده
- Lay two finger-ends on thy two eyes, and wilt thou see aught of the world? Deal justly (confess that thou wilt see nothing).
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گر نبینی این جهان معدوم نیست ** عیب جز ز انگشت نفس شوم نیست
- If thou dost not see this world, (yet) it is not non-existent: the fault lies not save in the finger of thy evil self.
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تو ز چشم انگشت را بردار هین ** و آن گهانی هر چه می‌‌خواهی ببین
- Come, lift the finger from thine eye, and then behold whatsoever thou wishest.
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نوح را گفتند امت کو ثواب ** گفت او ز آن سوی و استغشوا ثیاب
- To Noah his people said, ‘Where is the Divine recompense?’ He said, ‘On the other side of they cover themselves with their garments.
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رو و سر در جامه‌‌ها پیچیده‌‌اید ** لا جرم با دیده و نادیده‌‌اید 1405
- Ye have wrapped your faces and heads in your clothes: of necessity ye have eyes and see not.’
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آدمی دید است و باقی پوست است ** دید آن است آن که دید دوست است
- Man is eye, and (all) the rest is (worthless) skin: the sight of that (eye) is (consists in) seeing the Beloved.
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چون که دید دوست نبود کور به ** دوست کاو باقی نباشد دور به
- When there is not sight of the Beloved, it (the eye) is better blind; the beloved who is not everlasting is better afar (away and out of sight).”
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چون رسول روم این الفاظ تر ** در سماع آورد شد مشتاق‌‌تر
- When the ambassador of Rúm admitted these fresh (spiritual) words into his hearing (gave ear to them), he became more full of longing.