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رو و پشت برجهاش و سقف و پست ** جمله تمثال و نگار و صورتست
- The front and back of its towers and its roof and floor are all (covered with) images and decorations and pictures,
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همچو آن حجرهی زلیخا پر صور ** تا کند یوسف بناکامش نظر
- Like the chamber of Zalíkhá (which she made) full of pictures in order that Joseph should look upon her willy-nilly.
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چونک یوسف سوی او میننگرید ** خانه را پر نقش خود کرد آن مکید
- Since Joseph would not look at her, she cunningly filled the room with portraits of herself,
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تا به هر سو که نگرد آن خوشعذار ** روی او را بیند او بیاختیار
- So that, wherever the fair-cheeked (youth) looked, he might see her face without having the power to choose.
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بهر دیدهروشنان یزدان فرد ** شش جهت را مظهر آیات کرد 3640
- The peerless God hath made (all) the six directions a theatre for the display of His signs to the clairvoyant,
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تا بهر حیوان و نامی که نگزند ** از ریاض حسن ربانی چرند
- In order that, whatever animal or plant they look upon, they may feed on the meadows of Divine Beauty.
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بهر این فرمود با آن اسپه او ** حیث ولیتم فثم وجهه
- Hence He said unto the company (of mystics), ‘Wheresoever ye turn, His Face is there.
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از قدحگر در عطش آبی خورید ** در درون آب حق را ناظرید
- If in thirst ye drink some water from a cup, ye are beholding God within the water.’
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آنک عاشق نیست او در آب در ** صورت صورت خود بیند ای صاحببصر
- He that is not a lover (of God) sees in the water his own image, O man of insight;
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صورت عاشق چو فانی شد درو ** پس در آب اکنون کرا بیند بگو 3645
- (But) since the lover's image has disappeared in Him (the Beloved), whom now should he behold in the water? Tell (me that)!