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  • ابر ما را شد عدو و خصم جان  ** که کند مه را ز چشم ما نهان  690
  • The cloud is our mortal enemy and adversary because it hides the Moon from our eyes.

  • حور را این پرده زالی می‌کند  ** بدر را کم از هلالی می‌کند 
  • This veil makes the houri (to appear as) a hag: it makes the full-moon less than a new moon.

  • ماه ما را در کنار عز نشاند  ** دشمن ما را عدوی خویش خواند 
  • The Moon hath seated us in the lap of glory: He hath called our foe His enemy.

  • تاب ابر و آب او خود زین مهست  ** هر که مه خواند ابر را بس گمرهست 
  • The splendour and beauty of the cloud is (derived) from the Moon, (but) whoever calls the cloud the Moon is much astray.

  • نور مه بر ابر چون منزل شدست  ** روی تاریکش ز مه مبدل شدست 
  • Since the light of the Moon has been poured down upon the cloud, its (the cloud's) dark face has been transfigured by the Moon.

  • گرچه همرنگ مهست و دولتیست  ** اندر ابر آن نور مه عاریتیست  695
  • Although it is of the same colour as the Moon and is associated with (the Moon's) empire, (yet) in the cloud the light of the Moon is (only) borrowed (impermanent).

  • در قیامت شمس و مه معزول شد  ** چشم در اصل ضیا مشغول شد 
  • At the Resurrection the sun and moon are discharged (from their office): the eye is occupied in (contemplating) the Source of (their) radiance,

  • تا بداند ملک را از مستعار  ** وین رباط فانی از دارالقرار 
  • In order that it may know (distinguish) the (permanent) possession from the (temporary) loan, and this perishable caravanseray from the everlasting abode.

  • دایه عاریه بود روزی سه چار  ** مادرا ما را تو گیر اندر کنار 
  • The nurse is borrowed for three or four days: do thou, O Mother, take us into thy bosom!

  • پر من ابرست و پرده‌ست و کثیف  ** ز انعکاس لطف حق شد او لطیف 
  • My feathers are (like) the cloud and are a veil and gross: (only) by the reflexion of God's loveliness are they made lovely.