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ظاهر کافر ملوث نیست زین ** آن نجاست هست در اخلاق و دین 2095
- The infidel's outward part is not defiled by this (outward filth); that filthiness is in (his) disposition and religion.
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این نجاست بویش آید بیست گام ** و آن نجاست بویش از ری تا بشام
- The smell of this (outward filth comes (extends to a distance of) twenty paces; but the smell of that (inward) filth (reaches) from Rayy to Damascus;
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بلک بویش آسمانها بر رود ** بر دماغ حور و رضوان بر شود
- Nay, its smell goes up to the heavens and mounts to the brain of the houris and Rizwán.
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اینچ می‌گویم به قدر فهم تست ** مردم اندر حسرت فهم درست
- What I am saying is according to the measure of your understanding: I die in grief for (the absence of) a sound understanding.
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فهم آبست و وجود تن سبو ** چون سبو بشکست ریزد آب ازو
- The understanding is (like) the water, and the bodily existence (is like) the jug: when the jug is cracked, the water spills from it.
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این سبو را پنج سوراخست ژرف ** اندرو نه آب ماند خود نه برف 2100
- This jug has five deep holes: neither water will stay in it nor even snow.
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امر غضوا غضة ابصارکم ** هم شنیدی راست ننهادی تو سم
- You have heard, too, the command (of God), “Close ye your eyes tightly”; (yet) you have not walked aright.
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از دهانت نطق فهمت را برد ** گوش چون ریگست فهمت را خورد
- Your speech bears away your understanding by (way of) the mouth; your ear is like sand: it drinks (sucks up) your understanding.
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همچنین سوراخهای دیگرت ** می‌کشاند آب فهم مضمرت
- Similarly, your other holes (avenues of sense-perception) are drawing (off) the hidden water of your understanding.
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گر ز دریا آب را بیرون کنی ** بی عوض آن بحر را هامون کنی
- If you expel the water from the sea without (admitting) compensation, you will make the sea a desert.