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  • The fire is deposited (becomes immanent) in the tinder because it (the tinder) is already familiar with the fire.
  • زان شود آتش رهین سوخته  ** کوست با آتش ز پیش آموخته 

  • And in sooth Safúrá, from desire and love for that Light of true guidance, sacrificed both her eyes.
  • وز هوا و عشق آن نور رشاد  ** خود صفورا هر دو دیده باد داد 

  • At first she closed one eye and beheld the light of his (Moses') face (with the other); and that eye was lost.
  • اولا بر بست یک چشم و بدید  ** نور روی او و آن چشمش پرید 

  • Afterwards she could no longer restrain herself and (therefore) she opened the other (eye) and spent it on that Moon. 3085
  • بعد از آن صبرش نماند و آن دگر  ** بر گشاد و کرد خرج آن قمر 

  • Even so the (spiritual) warrior (first) gives away his bread; (but) when the light of devotion strikes on him, he gives away his life.
  • هم‌چنان مرد مجاهد نان دهد  ** چون برو زد نور طاعت جان دهد 

  • Then a woman said to her, “Art thou grieving for the jonquil-like eye that thou hast lost?”
  • پس زنی گفتش ز چشم عبهری  ** که ز دستت رفت حسرت می‌خوری 

  • “I am grieving,” she replied, “(to think) would that I had a hundred thousand eyes to lavish (on that Moon)!
  • گفت حسرت می‌خورم که صد هزار  ** دیده بودی تا همی‌کردم نثار 

  • The window, (which is) mine eye, has been ruined by the Moon; but the Moon is seated (there) like the (buried) treasure in the ruin.
  • روزن چشمم ز مه ویران شدست  ** لیک مه چون گنج در ویران نشست 

  • How should the treasure let this ruin of mine have (any regretful) memory of my porch and house?” 3090
  • کی گذارد گنج کین ویرانه‌ام  ** یاد آرد از رواق و خانه‌ام 

  • The light of Joseph's face, when he was passing by, used to fall on the latticed windows of every villa,
  • نور روی یوسفی وقت عبور  ** می‌فتادی در شباک هر قصور