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زلت او به ز طاعت نزد حق ** پیش کفرش جمله ایمانها خلق
- In the sight of God his backsliding is better than obedience; beside his infidelity all faiths are tattered (worthless).
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هر دمی او را یکی معراج خاص ** بر سر تاجش نهد صد تاج خاص 1580
- Every moment he hath an ascension (to God) peculiar to himself: He (God) lays upon his crown a hundred peculiar crowns.
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صورتش بر خاک و جان بر لامکان ** لامکانی فوق وهم سالکان
- His form is on earth and his spirit in “no-place,” a “no-place” beyond the imagination of travellers (on the mystic Way):
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لامکانی نه که در فهم آیدت ** هر دمی در وی خیالی زایدت
- Not such a “no-place” that it should come into thy understanding (or that) a fancy about it should be born in thee every moment;
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بل مکان و لامکان در حکم او ** همچو در حکم بهشتی چارجو
- Nay, place and “no-place” are in his control, just as the four (Paradisal) rivers are in the control of one who dwells in Paradise.
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شرح این کوته کن و رخ زین بتاب ** دم مزن و الله اعلم بالصواب
- Cut short the explanation of this and avert thy face from it: do not breathe a word (more)—and God knows best what is right.
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باز می‌‌گردیم ما ای دوستان ** سوی مرغ و تاجر و هندوستان 1585
- We return, O friends, to the bird and the merchant and India.
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مرد بازرگان پذیرفت این پیام ** کاو رساند سوی جنس از وی سلام
- The merchant accepted this message (and promised) that he would convey the greeting from her (the parrot) to her congeners.
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دیدن خواجه طوطیان هندوستان را در دشت و پیغام رسانیدن از آن طوطی
- How the merchant saw the parrots of India in the plain and delivered the parrot's message.
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چون که تا اقصای هندوستان رسید ** در بیابان طوطی چندی بدید
- When he reached the farthest bounds of India, he saw a number of parrots in the plain.
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مرکب استانید پس آواز داد ** آن سلام و آن امانت باز داد
- He halted his beast; then he gave voice, delivered the greeting and (discharged) the trust.