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از یک اندیشه که آید در درون ** صد جهان گردد به یک دم سر نگون
- By one thought that comes into the mind a hundred worlds are overturned in a single moment.
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جسم سلطان گر به صورت یک بود ** صد هزاران لشکرش در پی دود 1030
- If the body of the Sultan is, in form (appearance), one (only), (yet) hundreds of thousands of soldiers run behind (it).
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باز شکل و صورت شاه صفی ** هست محکوم یکی فکر خفی
- Again, the figure and form of the excellent King are ruled by one invisible thought.
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خلق بیپایان ز یک اندیشه بین ** گشته چون سیلی روانه بر زمین
- Behold people without end who, moved by one thought, have gone over the earth like a flood;
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هست آن اندیشه پیش خلق خرد ** لیک چون سیلی جهان را خورد و برد
- Small is that thought in the people's eyes, but like a flood it swallowed and swept away the world.
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پس چو میبینی که از اندیشهای ** قایم است اندر جهان هر پیشهای
- So, when you see that from a thought every craft in the world (arises and) subsists—
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خانهها و قصرها و شهرها ** کوهها و دشتها و نهرها 1035
- (That) houses and palaces and cities, mountains and plains and rivers,
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هم زمین و بحر و هم مهر و فلک ** زنده از وی همچو کز دریا سمک
- Earth and ocean as well as sun and sky, are living (derive their life) from it as fishes from the sea—
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پس چرا از ابلهی پیش تو کور ** تن سلیمان است و اندیشه چو مور
- Then why in your foolishness, O blind one, does the body seem to you a Solomon, and thought (only) as an ant?
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مینماید پیش چشمت که بزرگ ** هست اندیشه چو موش و کوه گرگ
- To your eye the mountain appears great: (to you) thought is like a mouse, and the mountain (like) a wolf.