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  • Let us turn our heads from ourselves towards Thee, inasmuch as Thou art nigher unto us than we (unto ourselves).
  • ما ز خود سوی که گردانیم سر ** چون تویی از ما به ما نزدیکتر

  • Even this prayer is Thy gift and lesson (to us); else, wherefore has a rose-bed grown in an ash-pit?
  • این دعا هم بخشش و تعلیم تست ** گر نه در گلخن گلستان از چه رست‏

  • Save through Thy munificence, ’tis impossible to convey understanding and reason into the midst of blood and entrails. 2450
  • در میان خون و روده فهم و عقل ** جز ز اکرام تو نتوان کرد نقل‏

  • This flowing light (proceeds) from two pieces of fat (the two eyeballs): their waves of light reach up to the sky.
  • از دو پاره‏ی پیه این نور روان ** موج نورش می‏زند بر آسمان‏

  • The piece of flesh which is the tongue—from it the flood of Wisdom is flowing, like a stream,
  • گوشت پاره که زبان آمد از او ** می‏رود سیلاب حکمت همچو جو

  • Towards a cavity, whereof the name is “ears,” up to the orchard of the (rational) soul, whereof the fruit is intellections.
  • سوی سوراخی که نامش گوشهاست ** تا بباغ جان که میوه‏اش هوشهاست‏

  • Its main course is the highway of the orchard of souls; the orchards and gardens of the world are its branches.
  • شاه راه باغ جانها شرع اوست ** باغ و بستانهای عالم فرع اوست‏

  • That, that, is the source and fountainhead of joy: quick, recite (the text), (gardens) beneath which flow the rivers. 2455
  • اصل و سرچشمه‏ی خوشی آن است آن ** زود تجری تحتها الأنهار خوان‏

  • Conclusion of the admonishment given by the Prophet, God bless and save him, to the sick man.
  • تتمه‌ای نصیحت رسول صلی الله علیه و آله بیمار را

  • The Prophet said to the sick man, when he visited (his) suffering friend,
  • گفت پیغمبر مر آن بیمار را ** چون عیادت کرد یار زار را

  • “Maybe you have made a prayer of some (peculiar) sort, and from ignorance have (as it were) eaten some poisoned food.
  • که مگر نوعی دعایی کرده‏ای ** از جهالت زهربایی خورده‏ای‏