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می‌نیارد یاد کین دنیا چو خواب ** می‌فرو پوشد چو اختر را سحاب
- Since this world, like sleep, is covering it over as clouds cover the stars? —
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خاصه چندین شهرها را کوفته ** گردها از درک او ناروفته
- Especially as it has trodden so many cities, and the dust has not (yet) been swept from its perceptive faculty,
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اجتهاد گرم ناکرده که تا ** دل شود صاف و ببیند ماجرا 3635
- Nor has it made ardent efforts that its heart should become pure and behold the past;
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سر برون آرد دلش از بخش راز ** اول و آخر ببیند چشم باز
- That its heart should put forth its head (peep forth) from the aperture of the mystery and should see the beginning and the end with open eye.
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اطوار و منازل خلقت آدمی از ابتدا
- The diverse modes and stages of the nature of Man from the beginning.
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آمده اول به اقلیم جماد ** وز جمادی در نباتی اوفتاد
- First he came into the clime (world) of inorganic things, and from the state of inorganic things he passed into the vegetable state.
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سالها اندر نباتی عمر کرد ** وز جمادی یاد ناورد از نبرد
- (Many) years he lived in the vegetable state and did not remember the inorganic state because of the opposition (between them);
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وز نباتی چون به حیوانی فتاد ** نامدش حال نباتی هیچ یاد
- And when he passed from the vegetable into the animal state, the vegetable state was not remembered by him at all,
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جز همین میلی که دارد سوی آن ** خاصه در وقت بهار و ضیمران 3640
- Save only for the inclination which he has towards that (state), especially in the season of spring and sweet herbs—
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هم‌چو میل کودکان با مادران ** سر میل خود نداند در لبان
- Like the inclination of babes towards their mothers: it (the babe) does not know the secret of its desire for being suckled;
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هم‌چو میل مفرط هر نو مرید ** سوی آن پیر جوانبخت مجید
- (Or) like the excessive inclination of every novice towards the noble spiritual Elder, whose fortune is young (and flourishing).