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بی‌جهت دان عالم امر ای صنم ** بی‌جهت‌تر باشد آمر لاجرم
- Know, O beloved, that the world of the Command is without direction: of necessity the Commander is (even) more without direction.
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بی‌جهت بد عقل و علام البیان ** عقل‌تر از عقل و جان‌تر هم ز جان
- The intellect was (ever) without direction, and the Knower of the exposition is more intelligent than intellect and more spiritual even than spirit.
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بی‌تعلق نیست مخلوقی بدو ** آن تعلق هست بی‌چون ای عمو 3695
- No created being is unconnected with Him: that connexion, O uncle, is indescribable,
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زانک فصل و وصل نبود در روان ** غیر فصل و وصل نندیشد گمان
- Because in the spirit there is no separating and uniting, while (our) thought cannot think except of separating and uniting.
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غیر فصل و وصل پی بر از دلیل ** لیک پی بردن بننشاند غلیل
- Pursue that which is without separation and union by (aid of) a spiritual guide; but the pursuit will not allay your thirst.
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پی پیاپی می‌بر ار دوری ز اصل ** تا رگ مردیت آرد سوی وصل
- (Yet) pursue incessantly, if you are far from the Source, that the vein of (true) manhood (in you) may bring you to the attainment (of your desire).
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این تعلق را خرد چون ره برد ** بسته‌ی فصلست و وصلست این خرد
- How should the intellect find the way to this connexion? This intellect is in bondage to separation and union.
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زین وصیت کرد ما را مصطفی ** بحث کم جویید در ذات خدا 3700
- Hence Mustafá (Mohammed) enjoined us, saying, “Do not seek to investigate the Essence of God.”
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آنک در ذاتش تفکر کردنیست ** در حقیقت آن نظر در ذات نیست
- (As regards) that One whose Essence is an object of thought, in reality the (thinker's) speculation is not concerning the Essence.
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هست آن پندار او زیرا به راه ** صد هزاران پرده آمد تا اله
- It is (only) his (false) opinion, because on the way to God there are a hundred thousand veils.