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این همی گفت و رخش در عین گفت ** نرگس و گلبرگ و لاله می‌شکفت 3520
- He was saying this, and at the very moment of saying it his countenance was blooming with narcissi, rose-leaves, and red anemones.
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تاب رو و چشم پر انوار او ** می گواهی داد بر گفتار او
- The glow of his face and his eye full of radiance were giving testimony to (the truth of) his words.
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هر سیه دل می سیه دیدی ورا ** مردم دیده سیاه آمد چرا
- Every black-hearted one was regarding him as black (and despising him); (but) why is the man (pupil) of the eye black?
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مردم نادیده باشد رو سیاه ** مردم دیده بود مرآت ماه
- The man (spiritually) blind is black-faced, (but) the Man of the (inward) eye (the Seer) is the mirror for the Moon.
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خود کی بیند مردم دیده‌ی ترا ** در جهان جز مردم دیده‌فزا
- Who in the world, indeed, sees the man of your (inward) eye except the Man of piercing sight?
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چون به غیر مردم دیده‌ش ندید ** پس به غیر او کی در رنگش رسید 3525
- Since none but the Man of the eye beheld it, who, then, but he attained to (knowledge of) its (essential) colour?
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پس جز او جمله مقلد آمدند ** در صفات مردم دیده بلند
- Therefore all except him (the Seer) are imitators (without immediate knowledge) in regard to the attributes of the sublime man of the eye.
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گفت جفتش الفراق ای خوش‌خصال ** گفت نه نه الوصالست الوصال
- His (Bilál's) wife said to him, “(This is) the parting, O man of goodly qualities.” “Nay, nay,” said he, “’tis the union, the union (with God).”
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گفت جفت امشب غریبی می‌روی ** از تبار و خویش غایب می‌شوی
- The wife said, “To-night thou wilt go to a strange country, thou wilt become absent from thy family and kindred.”
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گفت نه نه بلک امشب جان من ** می‌رسد خود از غریبی در وطن
- “Nay, nay,” he replied; “contrariwise, to-night in sooth from a strange country my spirit is coming home.”