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دود پیوسته هم از هیزم بود ** نه ز آتشهای مستنجم بود
- Likewise, ’tis from the faggots that the smoke always arises, not from the resplendent fires.
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وهم افتد در خطا و در غلط ** عقل باشد در اصابتها فقط 3570
- The imagination falls into error and mistake; the intellect is (engaged) only in acts of true perception.
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هر گرانی و کسل خود از تنست ** جان ز خفت جمله در پریدنست
- Every state of heaviness (sloth) and indolence, indeed, is (derived) from the body; the spirit, from its lightness (subtlety), is all on the wing.
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روی سرخ از غلبه خونها بود ** روی زرد از جنبش صفرا بود
- The face is red from the predominance of blood; the face is yellow from the movement (action) of the yellow bile.
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رو سپید از قوت بلغم بود ** باشد از سودا که رو ادهم بود
- The face is white from the power of the phlegm; ’tis from the black bile that the face is swarthy.
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در حقیقت خالق آثار اوست ** لیک جز علت نبیند اهل پوست
- In reality He (God) is the creator of effects, but followers of the husk (formalists) see nothing but the (secondary) cause.
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مغز کو از پوستها آواره نیست ** از طبیب و علت او را چاره نیست 3575
- The kernel (intellect) that is not separated from the husks has no means (of escape) from doctor and disease;
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چون دوم بار آدمی‌زاده بزاد ** پای خود بر فرق علتها نهاد
- (But) when a son of man is born twice, he plants his foot upon the head of (all) causes:
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علت اولی نباشد دین او ** علت جزوی ندارد کین او
- The First Cause is not his religion; the particular (secondary) cause has no enmity against him (does him no harm).
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می‌پرد چون آفتاب اندر افق ** با عروس صدق و صورت چون تتق
- He flies, like the sun, in the (spiritual) horizon with the bride, sincerity; and (material) form (is) as a veil (for him).