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کوه قاف ار پیش آید بهرسد ** همچو کوه طور نورش بر درد 3065
- If Mt Qáf should come forward as a barrier (to it), the Light would rend it asunder like Mt Sinai.”
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از کمال قدرت ابدان رجال ** یافت اندر نور بیچون احتمال
- Through the (Divine) omnipotence the bodies of (holy) men have gained ability to support the unconditioned Light.
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آنچ طورش بر نتابد ذرهای ** قدرتش جا سازد از قارورهای
- His (God's) power makes a glass vessel the dwelling-place of that (Light) of which Sinai cannot bear (even) a mote.
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گشت مشکات و زجاجی جای نور ** که همیدرد ز نور آن قاف و طور
- A lamp-niche and a lamp-glass have become the dwelling-place of the Light by which Mt Qáf and Mt Sinai are torn to pieces.
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جسمشان مشکات دان دلشان زجاج ** تافته بر عرش و افلاک این سراج
- Know that their (the holy men's) bodies are the lamp-niche and their hearts the glass: this lamp illumines the empyrean and the heavens.
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نورشان حیران این نور آمده ** چون ستاره زین ضحی فانی شده 3070
- Their (the heavens') light is dazzled by this Light and vanishes like the stars in this radiance of morning.
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زین حکایت کرد آن ختم رسل ** از ملیک لا یزال و لم یزل
- Hence the Seal of the prophets has related (the saying) of the everlasting and eternal Lord—
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که نگنجیدم در افلاک و خلا ** در عقول و در نفوس با علا
- “I am not contained in the heavens or in the void or in the exalted intelligences and souls;
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در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف
- (But) I am contained, as a guest, in the true believer's heart, without qualification or definition or description,
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در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف
- To the end that by the mediation of that heart (all) above and below may win from Me sovereignties and fortune.