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لیک عشق عاشقان تن زه کند ** عشق معشوقان خوش و فربه کند
- But the love of lovers makes the body (thin as) a bowstring, (while) the love of loved ones makes it comely and fat.
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چون درین دل برق مهر دوست جست ** اندر آن دل دوستی میدان که هست 4395
- When the lightning of love for the beloved has shot into this heart, know that there is love in that heart.
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در دل تو مهر حق چون شد دوتو ** هست حق را بی گمانی مهر تو
- When love for God has been doubled in thy heart, without any doubt God hath love for thee.
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هیچ بانگ کف زدن ناید بدر ** از یکی دست تو بی دستی دگر
- No sound of clapping comes forth from one hand of thine without the other hand.
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تشنه مینالد که ای آب گوار ** آب هم نالد که کو آن آبخوار
- The thirsty man is moaning, “O delicious water!” The water moans too, saying, “Where is the water-drinker?”
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جذب آبست این عطش در جان ما ** ما از آن او و او هم آن ما
- This thirst in our souls is the attraction exerted by the Water: we are Its, and It is ours.
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حکمت حق در قضا و در قدر ** کرد ما را عاشقان همدگر 4400
- The Wisdom of God in destiny and in decree made us lovers of one another.
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جمله اجزای جهان زان حکم پیش ** جفت جفت و عاشقان جفت خویش
- Because of that fore-ordainment all the particles of the world re paired as mates and are in love with their own mate.
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هست هر جزوی ز عالم جفتخواه ** راست همچون کهربا و برگ کاه
- Every particle of the universe is desiring its mate, just like amber and the blade of straw.
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آسمان گوید زمین را مرحبا ** با توم چون آهن و آهنربا
- Heaven says to the earth, “Welcome! To thee I am (in the same relation) as the iron and the magnet.”