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همچو آن یک نور خورشید سما ** صد بود نسبت بصحن خانهها
- Just as the single light of the sun in heaven is a hundred in relation to the house-courts (on which it shines),
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لیک یک باشد همه انوارشان ** چونک برگیری تو دیوار از میان
- But when you remove the wall, all the lights (falling) on them are one.
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چون نماند خانهها را قاعده ** مومنان مانند نفس واحده
- When the (bodily) houses have no foundation remaining, the Faithful remain one soul.
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فرق و اشکالات آید زین مقال ** زانک نبود مثل این باشد مثال
- Differences and difficulties arise from this saying, because this is not a (complete) similitude: it is (only) a comparison.
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فرقها بیحد بود از شخص شیر ** تا به شخص آدمیزاد دلیر 420
- Endless are the differences between the corporeal figure of a lion and the figure of a courageous son of man;
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لیک در وقت مثال ای خوشنظر ** اتحاد از روی جانبازی نگر
- But at the moment of (making) the comparison consider, O thou who hast good insight, their oneness in respect of hazarding their lives;
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کان دلیر آخر مثال شیر بود ** نیست مثل شیر در جملهی حدود
- For, after all, the courageous man did resemble the lion, (though) he is not like the lion in all points of the definition.
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متحد نقشی ندارد این سرا ** تا که مثلی وا نمایم من ترا
- This abode (the world) does not contain any form (that is) one (with any other form), so that I might show forth to thee a (complete) similitude.
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هم مثال ناقصی دست آورم ** تا ز حیرانی خرد را وا خرم
- Still, I will bring to hand an imperfect comparison, that I may redeem thy mind from confusion.
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شب بهر خانه چراغی مینهند ** تا به نور آن ز ظلمت میرهند 425
- At night a lamp is placed in every house, in order that by its light they (the inmates) may be delivered from darkness.
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آن چراغ این تن بود نورش چو جان ** هست محتاج فتیل و این و آن
- That lamp is (like) this body, its light like the (animal) soul; it requires a wick and this and that.
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آن چراغ شش فتیلهی این حواس ** جملگی بر خواب و خور دارد اساس
- That lamp with six wicks, namely, these senses, is based entirely upon sleep and food.
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بیخور و بیخواب نزید نیم دم ** با خور و با خواب نزید نیز هم
- Without food and sleep it would not live half a moment; nor even with food and sleep does it live either.
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بیفتیل و روغنش نبود بقا ** با فتیل و روغن او هم بیوفا
- Without wick and oil it has no duration, and with wick and oil it is also faithless (transient),
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زانک نور علتیاش مرگجوست ** چون زید که روز روشن مرگ اوست 430
- Inasmuch as its light, (being) related to (secondary) causes, is seeking death: how should it live when bright day is the death of it?
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جمله حسهای بشر هم بیبقاست ** زانک پیش نور روز حشر لاست
- Likewise all the human senses are impermanent, because they are naught in the presence of the Day of Resurrection.
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نور حس و جان بابایان ما ** نیست کلی فانی و لا چون گیا
- The light of the senses and spirits of our fathers is not wholly perishable and naught, like the grass;
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لیک مانند ستاره و ماهتاب ** جمله محوند از شعاع آفتاب
- But, like the stars and moonbeams, they all vanish in the radiance of the Sun.
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آنچنان که سوز و درد زخم کیک ** محو گردد چون در آید مار الیک
- ’Tis just as the smart and pain of the flea's bite disappears when the snake comes in to you (and bites you).
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آنچنان که عور اندر آب جست ** تا در آب از زخم زنبوران برست 435
- ’Tis just as the naked man jumped into the water, that in the water he might escape from the sting of the hornets:
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میکند زنبور بر بالا طواف ** چون بر آرد سر ندارندش معاف
- The hornets circle above (him), and when he puts out his head they do not spare him.
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آب ذکر حق و زنبور این زمان ** هست یاد آن فلانه وان فلان
- The water is recollection (dhikr) of God, and the hornet is the remembrance, during this time, of such-and-such a woman or such-and-such a man.
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دم بخور در آب ذکر و صبر کن ** تا رهی از فکر و وسواس کهن
- Swallow (hold) your breath in the water of recollection and show fortitude, that you may be freed from the old thought and temptation.
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بعد از آن تو طبع آن آب صفا ** خود بگیری جملگی سر تا به پا
- After that, you yourself will assume the nature of that pure water entirely from head to foot.
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آنچنان که از آب آن زنبور شر ** میگریزد از تو هم گیرد حذر 440
- As the noxious hornet flees from the water, so will it be afraid of (approaching) you.