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  • قرنها بگذشت و این قرن نویست  ** ماه آن ماهست آب آن آب نیست  3175
  • Generations have passed away, and this is a new generation: the moon is the same moon, the water is not the same water.

  • عدل آن عدلست و فضل آن فضل هم  ** لیک مستبدل شد آن قرن و امم 
  • The justice is the same justice, and the learning is the same learning too; but those generations and peoples have been changed (supplanted by others).

  • قرنها بر قرنها رفت ای همام  ** وین معانی بر قرار و بر دوام 
  • Generations on generations have gone, O sire, but these Ideas (Divine attributes) are permanent and everlasting.

  • آن مبدل شد درین جو چند بار  ** عکس ماه و عکس اختر بر قرار 
  • The water in this channel has been changed many times: the reflexion of the moon and of the stars remains unaltered.

  • پس بنااش نیست بر آب روان  ** بلک بر اقطار عرض آسمان 
  • Therefore its foundation is not in the running water; nay, but in the regions of the breadth (wide expanse) of Heaven.

  • این صفتها چون نجوم معنویست  ** دانک بر چرخ معانی مستویست  3180
  • These attributes are like Ideal stars: know that they are stablished in the sphere of the Ideas (Realities).

  • خوب‌رویان آینه‌ی خوبی او  ** عشق ایشان عکس مطلوبی او 
  • The beauteous are the mirror of His beauty: love for them is the reflexion of the desire of which He is the (real) object.

  • هم به اصل خود رود این خد و خال  ** دایما در آب کی ماند خیال 
  • This cheek and mole goes (back) to the Source thereof: how should a phantom continue in the water for ever?

  • جمله تصویرات عکس آب جوست  ** چون بمالی چشم خود خود جمله اوست 
  • The whole sum of pictured forms (phenomena) is a (mere) reflexion in the water of the river: when you rub your eye, (you will perceive that) all of them are really He.

  • باز عقلش گفت بگذار این حول  ** خل دوشابست و دوشابست خل 
  • Again, his (the debtor's) reason said (to him), “Abandon this seeing double: vinegar is grape-syrup and grape-syrup is vinegar.