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ز آن که پیوسته ست هر لوله به حوض ** خوض کن در معنی این حرف خوض
- Because every pipe is connected with the reservoir. Dive, dive into (ponder deeply) the meaning of these words.
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لطف شاهنشاه جان بیوطن ** چون اثر کرده ست اندر کل تن 2825
- (Consider) how the imperial grace of the homeless Spirit has produced effects on the whole body;
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لطف عقل خوش نهاد خوش نسب ** چون همه تن را در آرد در ادب
- How the grace of Reason, which is of goodly nature, of goodly lineage, brings the entire body into discipline;
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عشق شنگ بیقرار بیسکون ** چون در آرد کل تن را در جنون
- How Love, saucy, uncontrolled, and restless, throws the whole body into madness.
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لطف آب بحر کاو چون کوثر است ** سنگ ریزهش جمله در و گوهر است
- The purity of the water of the Sea that is like Kawthar (is such that) all its pebbles are pearls and gems.
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هر هنر که استا بدان معروف شد ** جان شاگردان بدان موصوف شد
- For whatever science the master is renowned, the souls of his pupils become endued with the same.
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پیش استاد اصولی هم اصول ** خواند آن شاگرد چست با حصول 2830
- With the master-theologian the quick and industrious pupil reads (scholastic) theology.
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پیش استاد فقیه آن فقه خوان ** فقه خواند نی اصول اندر بیان
- With the master-jurist the student of jurisprudence reads jurisprudence, when he (the teacher) expounds it, not theology.
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پیش استادی که او نحوی بود ** جان شاگردش از او نحوی شود
- With the master who is a grammarian—the soul of his pupil becomes imbued by him with grammar.
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باز استادی که او محو ره است ** جان شاگردش از او محو شه است
- Again, the master who is absorbed in the Way (of Súfism)— because of him the soul of his pupil is absorbed in the King (God).