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یوسف و موسی ز حق بردند نور ** در رخ و رخسار و در ذات الصدور
- Joseph and Moses fetched light from God into their cheeks and countenances and into their inmost bosoms.
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روی موسی بارقی انگیخته ** پیش رو او توبره آویخته
- The face of Moses shot forth a flashing beam: he hung a veil in front of his face.
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نور رویش آنچنان بردی بصر ** که زمرد از دو دیدهی مار کر 3060
- The splendour of his face would have dazzled (men's) eyes as the emerald (blinds) the eyes of the deaf adder.
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او ز حق در خواسته تا توبره ** گردد آن نور قوی را ساتره
- He besought God that the veil might become a covering for that powerful Light.
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توبره گفت از گلیمت ساز هین ** کان لباس عارفی آمد امین
- He (God) said, “Hark, make a veil of thy felt raiment, for the garment of gnosis can be trusted (to keep it safe),
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کان کسا از نور صبری یافتست ** نور جان در تار و پودش تافتست
- Because that robe has become inured to the Light: the Light of the Spirit shines through its warp and woof.
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جز چنین خرقه نخواهد شد صوان ** نور ما را بر نتابد غیر آن
- Nothing will be a (safe) repository (for it) except a mantle like this: nothing else can endure Our Light.
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کوه قاف ار پیش آید بهرسد ** همچو کوه طور نورش بر درد 3065
- If Mt Qáf should come forward as a barrier (to it), the Light would rend it asunder like Mt Sinai.”
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از کمال قدرت ابدان رجال ** یافت اندر نور بیچون احتمال
- Through the (Divine) omnipotence the bodies of (holy) men have gained ability to support the unconditioned Light.
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آنچ طورش بر نتابد ذرهای ** قدرتش جا سازد از قارورهای
- His (God's) power makes a glass vessel the dwelling-place of that (Light) of which Sinai cannot bear (even) a mote.
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گشت مشکات و زجاجی جای نور ** که همیدرد ز نور آن قاف و طور
- A lamp-niche and a lamp-glass have become the dwelling-place of the Light by which Mt Qáf and Mt Sinai are torn to pieces.
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جسمشان مشکات دان دلشان زجاج ** تافته بر عرش و افلاک این سراج
- Know that their (the holy men's) bodies are the lamp-niche and their hearts the glass: this lamp illumines the empyrean and the heavens.
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نورشان حیران این نور آمده ** چون ستاره زین ضحی فانی شده 3070
- Their (the heavens') light is dazzled by this Light and vanishes like the stars in this radiance of morning.
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زین حکایت کرد آن ختم رسل ** از ملیک لا یزال و لم یزل
- Hence the Seal of the prophets has related (the saying) of the everlasting and eternal Lord—
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که نگنجیدم در افلاک و خلا ** در عقول و در نفوس با علا
- “I am not contained in the heavens or in the void or in the exalted intelligences and souls;
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در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف
- (But) I am contained, as a guest, in the true believer's heart, without qualification or definition or description,
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در دل مومن بگنجیدم چو ضیف ** بی ز چون و بی چگونه بی ز کیف
- To the end that by the mediation of that heart (all) above and below may win from Me sovereignties and fortune.
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بیچنین آیینه از خوبی من ** برنتابد نه زمین و نه زمن 3075
- Without such a mirror neither Earth nor Time could bear the vision of My beauty.
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بر دو کون اسپ ترحم تاختیم ** پس عریض آیینهای بر ساختیم
- I caused the steed of (My) mercy to gallop over the two worlds: I fashioned a very spacious mirror.
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هر دمی زین آینه پنجاه عرس ** بشنو آیینه ولی شرحش مپرس
- From this mirror (appear) at every moment fifty (spiritual) wedding-feasts: hearken to the mirror, but do not ask (Me) to describe it.”
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حاصل این کزلبس خویشش پرده ساخت ** که نفوذ آن قمر را میشناخت
- The gist (of the discourse) is this, that he (Moses) made a veil of his raiment, since he knew the penetrativeness of (the light of) that Moon.
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گر بدی پرده ز غیر لبس او ** پاره گشتی گر بدی کوه دوتو
- Had the veil been (made) of anything except his raiment, it would have been torn to shreds, (even) if it had been (like) a solid mountain.
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ز آهنین دیوارها نافذ شدی ** توبره با نور حق چه فن زدی 3080
- It (the Light) would penetrate through iron walls: what contrivance could the veil employ against the Light of God?
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گشته بود آن توبره صاحب تفی ** بود وقت شور خرقهی عارفی
- That veil had become glowing: it was the mantle of a gnostic in the moment of ecstasy.
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زان شود آتش رهین سوخته ** کوست با آتش ز پیش آموخته
- The fire is deposited (becomes immanent) in the tinder because it (the tinder) is already familiar with the fire.