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تیغ حلمم گردن خشمم زده ست ** خشم حق بر من چو رحمت آمده ست 3800
- The sword of my forbearance hath smitten the neck of my anger; the anger of God hath come on me like mercy.
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غرق نورم گر چه سقفم شد خراب ** روضه گشتم گر چه هستم بو تراب
- I am plunged in light although my roof is ruined; I have become a garden although I am (styled) Bú Turáb (the father of dust).
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چون در آمد علتی اندر غزا ** تیغ را دیدم نهان کردن سزا
- Since a motive (other than God) entered (my heart) in the (holy) war, I deemed it right to sheathe my sword,
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تا احب لله آید نام من ** تا که ابغض لله آید کام من
- That my name may be he loves for God's sake, that my desire may be he hates for God's sake,
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تا که اعطا لله آید جود من ** تا که امسک لله آید بود من
- That my generosity may be he gives for God's sake, that my being may be he withholds for God's sake.
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بخل من لله عطا لله و بس ** جمله للهام نیم من آن کس 3805
- My stinginess is for God's sake, my bounty is for God's sake alone: I belong entirely to God, I do not belong to any one (else);
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و آن چه لله میکنم تقلید نیست ** نیست تخییل و گمان جز دید نیست
- And that which I am doing for God's sake is not (done in) conformity, it is not fancy and opinion, it is naught but intuition.
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ز اجتهاد و از تحری رستهام ** آستین بر دامن حق بستهام
- I have been freed from effort and search, I have tied my sleeve to the skirt of God.
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گر همیپرم همیبینم مطار ** ور همیگردم همیبینم مدار
- If I am flying, I behold the place to which I soar; and if I am circling, I behold the axis on which I revolve;
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ور کشم باری بدانم تا کجا ** ماهم و خورشید پیشم پیشوا
- And if I am dragging a burden, I know whither: I am the moon, and the Sun is in front of me as the guide.”
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بیش از این با خلق گفتن روی نیست ** بحر را گنجایی اندر جوی نیست 3810
- There is no means (possibility) of communicating more than this to the people: in the river there is no room for the Sea.
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پست میگویم به اندازهی عقول ** عیب نبود این بود کار رسول
- I speak low according to the measure of (their) understandings: ’tis no fault, this is the practice of the Prophet.
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از غرض حرم گواهی حر شنو ** که گواهی بندگان نه ارزد دو جو
- “I am free from self-interest: hear the testimony of a freeman, for the testimony of slaves is not worth two barleycorns.”
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در شریعت مر گواهی بنده را ** نیست قدری وقت دعوی و قضا
- In the religious law the testimony of a slave has no value at the time of litigation and judgement.
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گر هزاران بنده باشندت گواه ** بر نسنجد شرع ایشان را به کاه
- (Even) if thousands of slaves bear witness on thy behalf, the law does not assign to them the weight of a straw.
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بندهی شهوت بتر نزدیک حق ** از غلام و بندگان مسترق 3815
- In God's sight the slave of lust is worse than menials and slaves brought into servitude,
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کاین به یک لفظی شود از خواجه حر ** و آن زید شیرین و میرد سخت مر
- For the latter becomes free at a single word from his master, while the former lives sweet but dies exceedingly bitter.
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بندهی شهوت ندارد خود خلاص ** جز به فضل ایزد و انعام خاص
- The slave of lust hath no (means of) release at all except through the grace of God and His special favour.
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در چهی افتاد کان را غور نیست ** و آن گناه اوست جبر و جور نیست
- He has fallen into a pit that has no bottom, and that is his (own) sin: it is not (Divine) compulsion and injustice.
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در چهی انداخت او خود را که من ** در خور قعرش نمییابم رسن
- He has cast himself into such a pit that I find no rope capable of (reaching) its bottom.
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بس کنم گر این سخن افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که خارا خون شود 3820
- I will make an end. If this discourse go further, not only hearts but rocks will bleed.
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این جگرها خون نشد نز سختی است ** غفلت و مشغولی و بد بختی است
- (If) these hearts have not bled, ’tis not because of (their) hardness, ’tis (because of) heedlessness and preoccupation and ill-fatedness.
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خون شود روزی که خونش سود نیست ** خون شو آن وقتی که خون مردود نیست
- They will bleed one day when blood is no use to them: do thou bleed at a time when (thy) blood is not rejected.
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چون گواهی بندگان مقبول نیست ** عدل او باشد که بندهی غول نیست
- Inasmuch as the testimony of slaves is not accepted, the approved witness is he that is not the slave of the ghoul (of sensuality).
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گشت ارسلناک شاهد در نذر ** ز آن که بود از کون او حر ابن حر
- (The words) We have sent thee as a witness came in the Warning (the Qur’án), because he (the Prophet) was entirely free from (creaturely) existence.