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گردش این قالب همچون سپر ** هست از روح مستر ای پسر
- The motion of this shield-like body is (derived) from the veiled spirit, O son.
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گردش این باد از معنی اوست ** همچو چرخی کان اسیر آب جوست
- The motion of this wind is from its reality, like the wheel that is captive to the water of the stream.
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جر و مد و دخل و خرج این نفس ** از که باشد جز ز جان پر هوس
- The ebb and flow and incoming and outgoing of this breath —from whom does it proceed but from the spirit that is filled with desire?
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گاه جیمش میکند گه حا و دال ** گاه صلحش میکند گاهی جدال 3335
- Now it (the spirit) makes it (the breath) jím, now há and dál; now it makes it peace, now strife.
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همچنین این باد را یزدان ما ** کرده بد بر عاد همچون اژدها
- Even so our God had made this (Sarsar) wind like a (raging) dragon against ‘Ád.
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باز هم آن باد را بر مومنان ** کرده بد صلح و مراعات و امان
- Again, He had also made that wind (to be) peace and regardfulness and safety for the true believers.
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گفت المعنی هو الله شیخ دین ** بحر معنیهای رب العالمین
- “The Reality is Allah,” said the Shaykh of the (Mohammedan) Religion, (who is) the sea of the spiritual realities of the Lord of created beings.
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جمله اطباق زمین و آسمان ** همچو خاشاکی در آن بحر روان
- All the tiers of earth and heaven are (but) as straws in that flowing sea.
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حملهها و رقص خاشاک اندر آب ** هم ز آب آمد به وقت اضطراب 3340
- The rushing and tossing of the straws in the water is produced by the water when it is agitated.
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چون که ساکن خواهدش کرد از مرا ** سوی ساحل افکند خاشاک را
- When it (the sea of Reality) wishes to make them (the straws) cease from struggling, it casts the straws toward the shore.