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ای که یک دیدارتان دیدارها ** ای نثار دینتان دینارها
- O ye, one sight of whom is (worth many) sights, O ye on whose religion pieces of gold are scattered (as largesse),
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ای همه ینظر بنور الله شده ** از بر حق بهر بخشش آمده 2780
- O ye, all of whom have become seeing by the light of God, who have come from the King for the sake of munificence,
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تا زنید آن کیمیاهای نظر ** بر سر مسهای اشخاص بشر
- That ye may cast the elixir of your looks upon the copper of human individuals,
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من غریبم از بیابان آمدم ** بر امید لطف سلطان آمدم
- I am a stranger: I have come from the desert: I have come in hope of (gaining) the grace of the Sultan.
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بوی لطف او بیابانها گرفت ** ذرههای ریگ هم جانها گرفت
- The scent of his grace covered (took entire possession of) the deserts: even the grains of sand were ensouled (thereby).
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تا بدین جا بهر دینار آمدم ** چون رسیدم مست دیدار آمدم
- I came all the way to this place for the sake of dinars: as soon as I arrived, I became drunken with sight (contemplation).”
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بهر نان شخصی سوی نانوا دوید ** داد جان چون حسن نانوا را بدید 2785
- A person ran to the baker for bread: on seeing the beauty of the baker, he gave up the ghost.
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بهر فرجه شد یکی تا گلستان ** فرجهی او شد جمال باغبان
- A certain man went to the rose-garden to take his pleasure, and found it in the beauty of the gardener,
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همچو اعرابی که آب از چه کشید ** آب حیوان از رخ یوسف چشید
- Like the desert Arab who drew water from the well and tasted the Water of Life from the (lovely) face of Joseph.
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رفت موسی کاتش آرد او به دست ** آتشی دید او که از آتش برست
- Moses went to fetch fire: he beheld such a Fire (the Burning Bush) that he escaped from (searching after) fire.