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  • گر نبودی بهر عشق پاک را  ** کی وجودی دادمی افلاک را 
  • (Saying), “Had it not been for pure Love's sake, how should I have bestowed an existence on the heavens?

  • من بدان افراشتم چرخ سنی  ** تا علو عشق را فهمی کنی  2740
  • I have raised up the lofty celestial sphere, that thou mayst apprehend the sublimity of Love.

  • منفعتهای دیگر آید ز چرخ  ** آن چو بیضه تابع آید این چو فرخ 
  • Other benefits come from the celestial sphere: it is like the egg, (while) these (benefits) are consequential, like the chick.

  • خاک را من خوار کردم یک سری  ** تا ز خواری عاشقان بویی بری 
  • I have made the earth altogether lowly, that thou mayst gain some notion of the lowliness of lovers.

  • خاک را دادیم سبزی و نوی  ** تا ز تبدیل فقیر آگه شوی 
  • We have given greenness and freshness to the earth, that thou mayst become acquainted with the (spiritual) transmutation of the dervish.”

  • با تو گویند این جبال راسیات  ** وصف حال عاشقان اندر ثبات 
  • These firm-set mountains describe (represent) to thee the state of lovers in steadfastness,

  • گرچه آن معنیست و این نقش ای پسر  ** تا به فهم تو کند نزدیک‌تر  2745
  • Although that (state) is a reality, while this (description) is (only) an image, O son, (which is employed) in order that he (who offers it) may bring it nearer to thy understanding.

  • غصه را با خار تشبیهی کنند  ** آن نباشد لیک تنبیهی کنند 
  • They liken anguish to thorns; it is not that (in reality), but they do so as a means of arousing (thy) attention.

  • آن دل قاسی که سنگش خواندند  ** نامناسب بد مثالی راندند 
  • When they called a hard heart “stony,” that was (really) inappropriate, (but) they made it serve as a similitude.

  • در تصور در نیاید عین آن  ** عیب بر تصویر نه نفیش مدان 
  • The archetype of that (object of comparison) is inconceivable: put the blame on thy conceptual faculty, and do not regard it (the archetype) as negated (nonexistent).

  • رفتن این شیخ در خانه‌ی امیری بهر کدیه روزی چهار بار به زنبیل به اشارت غیب و عتاب کردن امیر او را بدان وقاحت و عذر گفتن او امیر را 
  • How the Shaykh, in obedience to the intimation from the Unseen, went with his basket four times in one day to the house of a certain Amír for the purpose of begging; and how the Amír rebuked him for his impudence, and how he excused himself to the Amír.