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پس ادب کردش بدین جرم اوستاد ** که مساز از چوب پوسیده عماد
- Therefore the (Divine) Master punished him for this sin, saying, “Do not make thy prop of rotten wood”;
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لیک یوسف را به خود مشغول کرد ** تا نیاید در دلش زان حبس درد
- But He caused Joseph to be engrossed with Him, to the end that his heart should not be pained by that imprisonment.
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آن‌چنانش انس و مستی داد حق ** که نه زندان ماند پیشش نه غسق 3415
- God gave him such intimate joy and rapture that neither the prison nor the mirk (of his dungeon) remained (visible) to him.
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نیست زندانی وحش‌تر از رحم ** ناخوش و تاریک و پرخون و وخم
- There is no prison more frightful than the womb—noisome and dark and full of blood and unhealthy;
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چون گشادت حق دریچه سوی خویش ** در رحم هر دم فزاید تنت بیش
- (Yet), when God has opened for you a window in His direction, your body (hidden) in the womb grows more (and more) every moment,
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اندر آن زندان ز ذوق بی‌قیاس ** خوش شکفت از غرس جسم تو حواس
- And in that prison, from the immeasurable delight (which you feel therein), the senses blossom happily from the plant, your body.
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زان رحم بیرون شدن بر تو درشت ** می‌گریزی از زهارش سوی پشت
- ’Tis grievous to you to go forth from the womb: you are fleeing from her (your mother's) pubes towards her back.
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راه لذت از درون دان نه از برون ** ابلهی دان جستن قصر و حصون 3420
- Know that the way of (spiritual) pleasure is from within, not from without: know that it is folly to seek palaces and castles.
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آن یکی در کنج مسجد مست و شاد ** وآن دگر در باغ ترش و بی‌مراد
- One man is enraptured and delighted in the nook of a mosque, while another is morose and disappointed in a garden.
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قصر چیزی نیست ویران کن بدن ** گنج در ویرانیست ای میر من
- The palace (body) is nothing: ruin your body! The treasure lies in the ruin, O my prince.