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بخش ۲۱ - حاصل جواب عارف از سؤال پسر / Section 21 - The Gnostic's Final Answer to the Son's Question

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سخن عارف ستوده سیر
چون به اینجا رسید پیش پسر

گفت کای فهم را مهیا تو
عشق من بود ازین قبل با تو

رخت آیینه مصفا بود
زان جمال ازل هویدا بود

چشم من بود بر جمال ازل
چون در آیینه ات فتاد خلل

چشم ازان آینه فرو بستم
پس زانوی خویش بنشستم

شاهد از آینه چو تابد رو
به بود آینه سر زانو

آن که باشد ز زانو آینه اش
حسن معنی شود معاینه اش

English translation

When the words of the gnostic of praised character Reached this point before the boy, He said: 'O you who are prepared in understanding, My love was with you on this account: Your face was a polished mirror, From which the Eternal Beauty was manifest. My eye was upon the Eternal Beauty; When a defect fell into your mirror, I closed my eyes to that mirror, And sat down behind my own knee. When the Beloved turns their face away from the mirror, It is better that the mirror be the top of the knee. He whose mirror is his knee, The beauty of meaning will be directly witnessed by him.'

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