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در مقامی مسکنی کم ساختی ** کم دو روز اندر دهی انداختی
- He would not make his abode in any one place, he would not spend two days in a village.
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گفت در یک خانه گر باشم دو روز ** عشق آن مسکن کند در من فروز
- He said, “If I stay two days in one house, love of that dwelling-place is kindled in me.
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غرة المسکن احاذره انا ** انقلی یا نفس سیری للغنا
- I am afraid of being beguiled by the dwelling-place: migrate, O my soul, and travel to independence.
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لا اعود خلق قلبی بالمکان ** کی یکون خالصا فی الامتحان
- I will not accustom my heart's nature to locality, (and I do this) in order that it may be pure in the (hour of) trial.”
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روز اندر سیر بد شب در نماز ** چشم اندر شاه باز او همچو باز 1930
- During the day he was (engaged) in travel, during the night in ritual prayer: his eye (was) open on the King, and he (himself was) like the falcon.
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منقطع از خلق نه از بد خوی ** منفرد از مرد و زن نه از دوی
- (He was) severed from the creatures (of God), (but) not on account of ill nature; isolated from man and woman, (but) not because of dualism.
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مشفقی خلق و نافع همچو آب ** خوش شفعیی و دعااش مستجاب
- A compassionate man to the creatures and beneficial (to them) as water; a goodly intercessor, and his prayers were answered.
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نیک و بد را مهربان و مستقر ** بهتر از مادر شهی‌تر از پدر
- (He was) kind to the good and the bad, and a sure refuge (for them); (he was) better than a mother, dearer than a father.
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گفت پیغامبر شما را ای مهان ** چون پدر هستم شفیق و مهربان
- The Prophet said, “O sirs, to you I am compassionate and kind as a father,
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زان سبب که جمله اجزای منید ** جزو را از کل چرا بر می‌کنید 1935
- Because ye all are parts of me.” Why (then) will ye tear the part away from the whole?