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ای که چون تو در زمانه نیست کس ** الله الله خلق را فریاد رس
- O thou like whom there is none in the world, for God's sake, for God's sake, come to the aid of thy people!”
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دفع گفتن وزیر مریدان را
- How the vizier refused the request of the disciples.
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گفت هان ای سخرگان گفتوگو ** وعظ و گفتار زبان و گوش جو 565
- He said: “Beware, O ye enslaved by words and talk, ye who seek admonition and discourse (conveyed) by the tongue and (through the) ear.
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پنبه اندر گوش حس دون کنید ** بند حس از چشم خود بیرون کنید
- Put cotton-wool in the ear of the low (physical) sense, take off the bandage of (that) sense from your eyes!
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پنبهی آن گوش سر گوش سر است ** تا نگردد این کر آن باطن کر است
- The ear of the head is the cotton-wool of the ear of the conscience: until the former becomes deaf, that inward (ear) is deaf.
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بیحس و بیگوش و بیفکرت شوید ** تا خطاب ارجعی را بشنوید
- Become without sense and without ear and without thought, that ye may hear the call (of God to the soul), ‘Return!’”
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تا به گفتوگوی بیداری دری ** تو ز گفت خواب بویی کی بری
- So long as thou art (engaged) in the conversation of wakefulness, how wilt thou catch any scent of the conversation of sleep?
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سیر بیرونی است قول و فعل ما ** سیر باطن هست بالای سما 570
- Our speech and action is the exterior journey: the interior journey is above the sky.
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حس خشکی دید کز خشکی بزاد ** عیسی جان پای بر دریا نهاد
- The (physical) sense saw (only) dryness, because it was born of dryness (earth): the Jesus of the spirit set foot on the sea.
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سیر جسم خشک بر خشکی فتاد ** سیر جان پا در دل دریا نهاد
- The journey of the dry body befell on dry land, (but) the journey of the spirit set foot (took place) in the heart of the sea.
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چون که عمر اندر ره خشکی گذشت ** گاه کوه و گاه صحرا گاه دشت
- Since thy life has passed in travelling on land, now mountain, now river, now desert,