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  • (At that time) he is craving forgiveness for his sins and trespasses from the grace of God behind the veil.
  • مغفرت می‌خواهد از جرم و خطا  ** از پس آن پرده از لطف خدا 

  • When a fountain gushes from a rock, the rock disappears in the fountain.
  • چون ز سنگی چشمه‌ای جاری شود  ** سنگ اندر چشمه متواری شود 

  • After that, no one calls it “stone,” seeing that such a pure substance has gushed forth from the rock.
  • کس نخواهد بعد از آن او را حجر  ** زانک جاری شد از آن سنگ آن گهر 

  • Know that these forms are (like) bowls and acquire excellence through that which God pours into them. 3285
  • کاسه‌ها دان این صور را واندرو  ** آنچ حق ریزد بدان گیرد علو 

  • How the kinsfolk of Majnún said to him, “The beauty of Laylá is limited, it is not so very great: in our city there are many fairer than she. We will show unto thee one or two or ten: take thy choice, and deliver us (from reproach) and thyself (from affliction)”; and how Majnún answered them.
  • گفتن خویشاوندان مجنون را کی حسن لیلی باندازه‌ایست چندان نیست ازو نغزتر در شهر ما بسیارست یکی و دو و ده بر تو عرضه کنیم اختیار کن ما را و خود را وا رهان و جواب گفتن مجنون ایشان را 

  • The fools in their ignorance said to Majnún, “The beauty of Laylá is not so very great, it is of slight account.
  • ابلهان گفتند مجنون را ز جهل  ** حسن لیلی نیست چندان هست سهل 

  • There are thousands of moon-like sweethearts fairer than she in our city.”
  • بهتر از وی صد هزاران دلربا  ** هست هم‌چون ماه اندر شهر ما 

  • He replied, “The (outward) form is a pot, and beauty is the wine: God is giving me wine from her form.
  • گفت صورت کوزه است و حسن می  ** می خدایم می‌دهد از نقش وی 

  • He gave you vinegar from her pot, lest love of her should pull you by the ears.”
  • مر شما را سرکه داد از کوزه‌اش  ** تا نباشد عشق اوتان گوش کش 

  • The hand of God, the Almighty and Glorious, gives poison or honey to every one from the same pot. 3290
  • از یکی کوزه دهد زهر و عسل  ** هر یکی را دست حق عز و جل 

  • Thou seest the pot, but the wine does not show itself to the wrong eye.
  • کوزه می‌بینی ولیکن آب شراب  ** روی ننماید به چشم ناصواب 

  • Spiritual experience is (like) the women who look modestly: it shows no sign but to its possessor.
  • قاصرات الطرف باشد ذوق جان  ** جز به خصم خود بنماید نشان 

  • That wine is (like) the women who look modestly, while these vessels screening it (from view) are like the tents.
  • قاصرات الطرف آمد آن مدام  ** وین حجاب ظرفها هم‌چون خیام 

  • The great river (too) is (like) a tent, wherein is life for the duck, but death for crows.
  • هست دریا خیمه‌ای در وی حیات  ** بط را لیکن کلاغان را ممات 

  • Venom also is the snake's food and provision, (but) its venom is anguish and death to others. 3295
  • زهر باشد مار را هم قوت و برگ  ** غیر او را زهر او دردست و مرگ 

  • The form of every blessing and affliction is a Hell to this one, a Paradise to that one.
  • صورت هر نعمتی و محنتی  ** هست این را دوزخ آن را جنتی 

  • Therefore (though) ye see all bodies and things, and there is food and poison in them (all)—ye see (it) not.
  • پس همه اجسام و اشیا تبصرون  ** واندرو قوتست و سم لاتبصرون 

  • Every body resembles a bowl or a pot, wherein is both food and a (cause of) heart-burning.
  • هست هر جسمی چو کاسه و کوزه‌ای  ** اندرو هم قوت و هم دلسوزه‌ای 

  • The bowl is visible, the plenty (contained) in it is hidden: (only) he who tastes it (the contents) knows what he is eating or drinking from it.
  • کاسه پیدا اندرو پنهان رغد  ** طاعمش داند کزان چه می‌خورد 

  • The form of Joseph was like a beauteous cup: from it his father drank a hundred exhilarating wines. 3300
  • صورت یوسف چو جامی بود خوب  ** زان پدر می‌خورد صد باده‌ی طروب 

  • Again, to his brethren (the draught they took) from it was poisoned water which was increasing in them anger and hatred.
  • باز اخوان را از آن زهراب بود  ** کان دریشان خشم و کینه می‌فزود 

  • Again, to Zalíkhá (the draught she took) from it was (sweet as) sugar: she was quaffing a different opiate from (the hand of) Love.
  • باز از وی مر زلیخا را سکر  ** می‌کشید از عشق افیونی دگر 

  • The nutriment which came from Joseph to that fair one was other than that which came to Jacob.
  • غیر آنچ بود مر یعقوب را  ** بود از یوسف غذا آن خوب را 

  • The sherbets are various, but the pot is one, in order that no doubt may remain in thee concerning the wine of the Unseen.
  • گونه‌گونه شربت و کوزه یکی  ** تا نماند در می غیبت شکی 

  • The wine belongs to the Unseen, the pot to this world: the pot is apparent, the wine in it is very hidden: 3305
  • باده از غیبست و کوزه زین جهان  ** کوزه پیدا باده در وی بس نهان 

  • Very hidden from the eyes of the uninitiated, but manifest and evident to the adept.
  • بس نهان از دیده‌ی نامحرمان  ** لیک بر محرم هویدا و عیان