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خواب را بگذار امشب ای پدر ** یک شبی بر کوی بی‌خوابان گذر
- Abandon sleep to-night, O father: for one night traverse the district of the sleepless.
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بنگر اینها را که مجنون گشته‌اند ** هم‌چو پروانه بوصلت کشته‌اند
- Look on these (lovers) who have become frenzied and been killed, like moths, by (their) union (with the Beloved).
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بنگر این کشتی خلقان غرق عشق ** اژدهایی گشت گویی حلق عشق
- Look on this ship of (God's) creatures (and see how it is) sunk in Love: you would say that Love's throat has become a dragon (to swallow it)—
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اژدهایی ناپدید دلربا ** عقل هم‌چون کوه را او کهربا
- An invisible heart-ravishing dragon: it is a magnet to draw (towards itself) the reason that is (firm) like a mountain.
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عقل هر عطار کاگه شد ازو ** طبله‌ها را ریخت اندر آب جو 625
- Every druggist whose reason became acquainted with Him (Love) dropped the trays (containing drugs and perfumes) into the water of the river.
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رو کزین جو برنیایی تا ابد ** لم یکن حقا له کفوا احد
- Go, for you will not emerge from this river (of Love) unto everlasting: in truth there is none to be compared with Him.
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ای مزور چشم بگشای و ببین ** چند گویی می‌ندانم آن و این
- O false pretender, open your eye and see! How long will you say, “I know not that or this”?
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از وبای زرق و محرومی بر آ ** در جهان حی و قیومی در آ
- Ascend from the plague of hypocrisy and deprivation: enter the world of Life and Self-subsistence,
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تا نمی‌بینم همی‌بینم شود ** وین ندانمهات می‌دانم بود
- So that “I see not” may become “I see” and these “I know not's” of yours may be (turned into) “I know.”
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بگذر از مستی و مستی‌بخش باش ** زین تلون نقل کن در استواش 630
- Pass beyond intoxication and be one who bestows intoxication (on others): move away from this mutability into His permanence.