بخش 67 - در بیان آنک تن روح را چون لباسی است و این دست آستین دست روحست واین پای موزهٔ پای روحست

Explaining that the body is as a garment to the spirit, and that this (bodily) hand is the sleeve of the spirit's hand, and that this (bodily) foot is the shoe of the spirit's foot.

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تا بدانی که تن آمد چون لباس
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تا بدانی که تن آمد چون لباس

رو بجو لابِس، لباسی را ملیس

(I mention this insensibility to pain) that you may know that the body is like a garment. Go, seek the wearer of the garment, do not lick (kiss) a garment.

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روح را توحید الله خوشترست

غیر ظاهر دست و پای دیگرست

To the spirit the knowledge of the Unity (of God) is sweeter (than care for the body): it hath a hand and foot different from those which are visible.

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دست و پا در خواب بینی و ایتلاف

آن حقیقت دان مدانش از گزاف

You may behold in dream the (spiritual) hand and foot and their connexion (with the spiritual body): deem that (vision) a reality, deem it not to be in vain.

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آن توی که بی بدن داری بدن

پس مترس از جسم و جان بیرون شدن

You are such that without the (material) body you have a (spiritual) body: do not, then, dread the going forth of the soul from the body.

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