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من تمام این نیارم گفت از آن ** منع میآید ز صاحب مرکزان 1680
- I dare not expound the whole of this (subject): hindrance thereto is coming from those who are at the centre.
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چون فراموشی خلق و یادشان ** با وی است و او رسد فریادشان
- Inasmuch as the forgetfulness and recollection of (God's) creatures are with him (depend on the perfect saint), and he comes at their call for help,
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صد هزاران نیک و بد را آن بهی ** میکند هر شب ز دلهاشان تهی
- Every night that glorious one is emptying from their hearts hundreds of thousands of good and evil (thoughts),
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روز دلها را از آن پر میکند ** آن صدفها را پر از در میکند
- (While) in the daytime he is filling their hearts therewith— he is filling those oyster-shells with pearls.
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آن همه اندیشهی پیشانها ** میشناسند از هدایت جانها
- By (Divine) guidance (after sleep is past) all those thoughts of former things recognize the spirits (to which they were attached).
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پیشه و فرهنگ تو آید به تو ** تا در اسباب بگشاید به تو 1685
- Your handicraft and skill come (back) to you, that they may open to you the door of (ways and) means.
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پیشه زرگر به آهنگر نشد ** خوی این خوش خو به آن منکر نشد
- The goldsmith's craft did not go to the ironsmith; the disposition of the good-natured man did not go to the disagreeable one.
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پیشهها و خلقها همچون جهیز ** سوی خصم آیند روز رستخیز
- On the day of Resurrection the handicrafts and dispositions will come, like articles of property, to the claimant (owner).
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پیشهها و خلقها از بعد خواب ** واپس آید هم به خصم خود شتاب
- After sleep also, the handicrafts and dispositions come back in haste to him that claims them as his.
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پیشهها و اندیشهها در وقت صبح ** هم بدانجا شد که بود آن حسن و قبح
- At the hour of dawn the handicrafts and thoughts went to the same place where that good and evil (formerly) were.