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چون سلیمان کرد آغاز بنا ** پاک چون کعبه همایون چون منی
- When Solomon began the building—holy like the Ka’ba, august like Miná—
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در بنااش دیده می‌شد کر و فر ** نی فسرده چون بناهای دگر
- In his building were seen splendour and magnificence: it was not frigid (dull and lifeless) like other buildings.
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در بنا هر سنگ کز که می‌سکست ** فاش سیروا بی‌همی گفت از نخست
- From the first, every stone in the building—(every stone) that was broken off from the mountain—was saying clearly, “Take me along!”
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هم‌چو از آب و گل آدم‌کده ** نور ز آهک پاره‌ها تابان شده 470
- As from the water and earth of the house (bodily tenement) of Adam, (so) did light shine forth from the pieces of mortar.
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سنگ بی‌حمال آینده شده ** وان در و دیوارها زنده شده
- The stones were coming without carrier, and those doors and walls had become living.
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حق همی‌گوید که دیوار بهشت ** نیست چون دیوارها بی‌جان و زشت
- God saith that the ‘wall of Paradise is not lifeless and ugly like (other) walls;
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چون در و دیوار تن با آگهیست ** زنده باشد خانه چون شاهنشهیست
- Like the door and wall of the body, it is (endowed) with intelligence: the house (Paradise) is living since it belongs to the King of kings.
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هم درخت و میوه هم آب زلال ** با بهشتی در حدیث و در مقال
- Both tree and fruit and limpid water (take part) with the in habitant of Paradise in conversation and discourse,
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زانک جنت را نه ز آلت بسته‌اند ** بلک از اعمال و نیت بسته‌اند 475
- Because Paradise has not been fashioned out of (the builder’s) materials; nay, but it has been fashioned out of (good) deeds and intentions.
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این بنا ز آب و گل مرده بدست ** وان بنا از طاعت زنده شدست
- This edifice has been (made) of dead water and earth, while that edifice has arisen from living piety.