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در زمین و آسمان و عرش نیز ** من نگنجم این یقین دان ای عزیز
- I am not contained in earth or heaven or even in the empyrean—know this for certain, O noble one;
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در دل مومن بگنجم ای عجب ** گر مرا جویی در آن دلها طلب 2655
- (But) I am contained in the true believer's heart: oh, how wonderful! If thou seekest Me, search in those hearts.’
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گفت ادخل فی عبادی تلتقی ** جنة من رؤیتی یا متقی
- He (God) said (also), ‘Enter among My servants, thou wilt meet with a Paradise (consisting) of vision of Me, O God-fearing one.’
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عرش با آن نور با پهنای خویش ** چون بدید آن را برفت از جای خویش
- The empyrean, notwithstanding its wide (far-extending) light, when it beheld that (spirit of Adam), was confounded.
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خود بزرگی عرش باشد بس مدید ** لیک صورت کیست چون معنی رسید
- Truly, the magnitude of the empyrean is very great, but who (what) is form when reality has arrived?
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هر ملک میگفت ما را پیش از این ** الفتی میبود بر گرد زمین
- Every angel was saying (to Adam), ‘Before this (time) we had a friendship (with thee) on the face of the earth.
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تخم خدمت بر زمین میکاشتیم ** ز آن تعلق ما عجب میداشتیم 2660
- On the earth we were sowing the seed of service (worship): we were marveling at that connexion,
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کاین تعلق چیست با این خاکمان ** چون سرشت ما بده ست از آسمان
- Marvelling what connexion we had with this dust, inasmuch as our nature is of heaven.
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الف ما انوار با ظلمات چیست ** چون تواند نور با ظلمات زیست
- (We said), Why (this) friendship in us, who are light, with darkness? How can light live with darkness?
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آدما آن الف از بوی تو بود ** ز آن که جسمت را زمین بد تار و پود
- O Adam, that friendship was owing to the scent of thee, because earth was the woof and warp of thy body.