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عقل جزوی همچو برقست و درخش ** در درخشی کی توان شد سوی وخش
- The particular intellect is like the lightning and the flash: how is it possible to go to Wakhsh in a flash?
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نیست نور برق بهر رهبری ** بلک امریست ابر را که میگری 3320
- The light of the lightning is not for guidance on the way; nay, it is a command to the cloud to weep.
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برق عقل ما برای گریه است ** تا بگرید نیستی در شوق هست
- The lightning of our intellect is for the sake of weeping, to the end that nonexistence may weep in longing for (real) existence.
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عقل کودک گفت بر کتاب تن ** لیک نتواند به خود آموختن
- The child's intellect said, “Attend school”; but it cannot learn by itself.
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عقل رنجور آردش سوی طبیب ** لیک نبود در دوا عقلش مصیب
- The sick man's intellect leads him to the physician; but his intellect is not successful in curing him.
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نک شیاطین سوی گردون میشدند ** گوش بر اسرار بالا میزدند
- Mark, the devils were going heavenward and listening to the secrets on high
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میربودند اندکی زان رازها ** تا شهب میراندشان زود از سما 3325
- And carrying away a little of those secrets, till the shooting stars quickly drove them from heaven,
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که روید آنجا رسولی آمدست ** هر چه میخواهید زو آید به دست
- Saying, “Begone! A prophet is come there (on the earth): from him will be obtained whatsoever ye crave.
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گر همیجویید در بیبها ** ادخلوا الابیات من ابوابها
- If ye are seeking priceless pearls, enter the houses by their doors.
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میزن آن حلقهی در و بر باب بیست ** از سوی بام فلکتان راه نیست
- Keep knocking that door-ring and stand at the door: there is no way for you in the direction of the vault of heaven.