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بخش ۲ / Section 2

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میان دو خردمند سخن عشق می رفت، یکی گفت: خاصیت عشق همیشه بلا و رنج است و عاشق همه وقت محنتکش و بلاسنج. دیگری گفت: خاموش باش همانا که تو هرگز آشتی بعد از جنگ ندیده ای و چاشنی وصال بعد از فراق نچشیده ای. هیچ کس از صافی دلان عشق پیشه لطیفتر نیست و از گران جانان دور ازین اندیشه کثیفتر نی.
پرتو شاهد عشق است جمال دل مرد

کی کند میل جمال آن که به دل نیست جمیل
گر بدین قاعده حجت طلبد نادانی

حجتم بس بود: الجنس الی جنس یمیل

English translation

Between two wise men a discourse on love was taking place. One said: The essential quality of love is ever affliction and suffering, and the lover is at all times a bearer of hardship and a weigher of affliction. The other said: Be silent, for surely you have never seen reconciliation after war, nor tasted the savor of union after separation. No one is more delicate than the pure-hearted who make a practice of love, and none more coarse than the heavy-souled who are far from this thought.

The radiance of the witness of love is the beauty of a man's heart; How should he incline to beauty whose own heart is not fair? If in ignorance one should demand a proof for this principle, My proof is enough: like inclines toward its own kind (al-jins ila al-jins yamil).

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