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  • نیست شرح این سخن را منتهی ** پاره‌ای گفتم بدانی پاره‌ها
  • There is no end to the explanation of this matter. I have told a portion: you may know the (remaining) portions (by analogy).

  • جمله عالم آکل و ماکول دان ** باقیان را مقبل و مقبول دان 30
  • Know that all the world is eating and eaten; know that those who have everlasting life (in God) are fortunate and accepted.

  • این جهان و ساکنانش منتشر ** وان جهان و سالکانش مستمر
  • This world and its inhabitants are (in the end) dispersed; that (other) world and its travellers are continuing (for ever).

  • این جهان و عاشقانش منقطع ** اهل آن عالم مخلد مجتمع
  • This world and its lovers are cut off; the people of that (other) world are eternalised and united.

  • پس کریم آنست کو خود را دهد ** آب حیوانی که ماند تا ابد
  • The (truly) noble, then, is he that gives to himself the Water of Life that remains unto everlasting.

  • باقیات الصالحات آمد کریم ** رسته از صد آفت و اخطار و بیم
  • The noble one is (the very essence of) the good works which endure: he has been freed from a hundred banes and perils and fears.

  • گر هزارانند یک کس بیش نیست ** چون خیالاتی عدد اندیش نیست 35
  • If they (the noble) are thousands (externally), there is no more than one (in reality): ’tis not like the fancies of him that thinks of number.

  • آکل و ماکول را حلقست و نای ** غالب و مغلوب را عقلست و رای
  • (Both) the eater and the eaten have a throat and windpipe: (both) the victor and the vanquished have understanding and mental perception.

  • حلق بخشید او عصای عدل را ** خورد آن چندان عصا و حبل را
  • He (God) bestowed a throat on the rod of justice, (so that) it devoured all those many rods and ropes;

  • واندرو افزون نشد زان جمله اکل ** زانک حیوانی نبودش اکل و شکل
  • And in it was no increase from all that eating, because its eating and its form were not animal.