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کوی نومیدی مرو امیدهاست ** سوی تاریکی مرو خورشیدهاست
- Go not to the neighbourhood of despair: there are hopes. Go not in the direction of darkness: there are suns.
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دل ترا در کوی اهل دل کشد ** تن ترا در حبس آب و گل کشد 725
- The heart leads you into the neighbourhood of the men of heart (the saints); the body leads you into the prison of water and earth.
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هین غذای دل بده از هم دلی ** رو بجو اقبال را از مقبلی
- Oh, give your heart food from (conversation with) one who is in accord with it; go, seek (spiritual) advancement from one who is advanced.
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تعظیم نعت مصطفی علیه السلام که مذکور بود در انجیل
- How honour was paid to the description of Mustafá (Mohammed), on whom be peace, which was mentioned in the Gospel.
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بود در انجیل نام مصطفی ** آن سر پیغمبران بحر صفا
- The name of Mustafá was in the Gospel—(Mustafá) the chief of the prophets, the sea of purity.
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بود ذکر حلیهها و شکل او ** بود ذکر غزو و صوم و اکل او
- There was mention of his (external) characteristics and appearance; there was mention of his warring and fasting and eating.
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طایفهی نصرانیان بهر ثواب ** چون رسیدندی بدان نام و خطاب
- A party among the Christians, for the sake of the Divine reward, whenever (in reading the Gospel) they came to that name and allocution,
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بوسه دادندی بر آن نام شریف ** رو نهادندی بر آن وصف لطیف 730
- Would bestow kisses on that noble name and stoop their faces towards that beauteous description.
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اندر این فتنه که گفتیم آن گروه ** ایمن از فتنه بدند و از شکوه
- In this tribulation of which we have told, that party were secure from tribulation and dread,
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ایمن از شر امیران و وزیر ** در پناه نام احمد مستجیر
- Secure from the mischief of the amírs and the vizier, seeking refuge in the protection of the Name of Ahmad (Mohammed).
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نسل ایشان نیز هم بسیار شد ** نور احمد ناصر آمد یار شد
- Their offspring also multiplied: the Light of Ahmad aided and befriended them.