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زان زمانی که خریدی تو مرا ** تا به اکنون باز گویم ماجرا
- I will relate what has passed (between us) from the time when thou didst purchase me until now,
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تا بدانی که همانم در وجود ** گرچه از شبدیز من صبحی گشود
- That thou mayst know I am the same in (my spiritual) existence, though a (bright) dawn has opened forth from my night-hued (body).
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رنگ دیگر شد ولیکن جان پاک ** فارغ از رنگست و از ارکان و خاک
- The colour is changed; but the pure spirit is free from colour and from the (four) elements and the dust.”
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تنشناسان زود ما را گم کنند ** آبنوشان ترک مشک و خم کنند 3190
- They that know the body (alone) soon lose us; (but) they that quaff the (spiritual) water abandon the (bodily) water-skin and jar.
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جانشناسان از عددها فارغاند ** غرقهی دریای بیچونند و چند
- They that know the spirit are free from numbers (plurality): they are sunk in the Sea that is without quality or quantity.
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جان شو و از راه جان جان را شناس ** یار بینش شو نه فرزند قیاس
- Become spirit and know spirit by means of spirit: become the friend of vision (clairvoyant), not the child of ratiocination.
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چون ملک با عقل یک سررشتهاند ** بهر حکمت را دو صورت گشتهاند
- Forasmuch as the Angel is one in origin with Intelligence, (and) they have (only) become two (different) forms for the sake of (the Divine) Wisdom—
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آن ملک چون مرغ بال و پر گرفت ** وین خرد بگذاشت پر و فر گرفت
- The Angel assumed wings and pinions like a bird, while this Intelligence left wings (behind) and assumed (immaterial) splendour—
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لاجرم هر دو مناصر آمدند ** هر دو خوش رو پشت همدیگر شدند 3195
- Necessarily both became co-adjutors: both the beauteous ones became a support to one another.
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هم ملک هم عقل حق را واجدی ** هر دو آدم را معین و ساجدی
- The Angel as well as the Intelligence is a finder of God: each of the twain is a helper and worshipper of Adam.