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  • رحمتش نه رحمت آدم بود ** که مزاج رحم آدم غم بود
  • His mercy is not the mercy of Adam, for sorrow is mingled with the mercy of Adam.

  • رحمت مخلوق باشد غصه‌ناک ** رحمت حق از غم و غصه‌ست پاک
  • The mercy of the creature is anxious; the mercy of God is exempt from sorrow and anxiety.

  • رحمت بی‌چون چنین دان ای پدر ** ناید اندر وهم از وی جز اثر
  • Know that the mercy of the Unconditioned (God) is like this, O father; naught but the effect thereof comes into the imagination (is conceivable to us).

  • فرق میان دانستن چیزی به مثال و تقلید و میان دانستن ماهیت آن چیز
  • The difference between knowing a thing by comparison and convention and knowing the quiddity of that thing.

  • ظاهرست آثار و میوه‌ی رحمتش ** لیک کی داند جز او ماهیتش 3635
  • The effects and fruit of His mercy are manifest, but how should any one except Him know its quiddity?

  • هیچ ماهیات اوصاف کمال ** کس نداند جز بثار و مثال
  • None knows the quiddities of the attributes of (Divine) Perfection except through (their) effects and by means of comparison.

  • طفل ماهیت نداند طمث را ** جز که گویی هست چون حلوا ترا
  • The child does not know the quiddity of concubitus, except that you say, “It is like sweetmeat to thee.” [The child does not know the quiddity of sexual intercourse, except that you say, “it is like sweetmeat to thee.”]

  • کی بود ماهیت ذوق جماع ** مثل ماهیات حلوا ای مطاع
  • How should the quiddity of the pleasure of sexual intercourse be like the quiddities of sweetmeat, O master?

  • لیک نسبت کرد از روی خوشی ** با تو آن عاقل چو تو کودک‌وشی
  • But, since you are childish, that intelligent man offered you the analogy respecting the sweetness (of it),

  • تا بداند کودک آن را از مثال ** گر نداند ماهیت یا عین حال 3640
  • In order that the child might know it by comparison, though he does not know the quiddity or essence of the matter.

  • پس اگر گویی بدانم دور نیست ** ور ندانم گفت کذب و زور نیست
  • Therefore, if you say “I know,” ’tis not far (from the truth); and if you say, “I do not know,” ’tis not a lie and a falsehood.