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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.
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عالم اندر چشم تو هول و عظیم ** ز ابر و رعد و چرخ داری لرز و بیم
- The (material) world in your eyes is awful and sublime: you tremble and are frightened at the clouds and the thunder and the sky,
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وز جهان فکرتی ای کم ز خر ** ایمن و غافل چو سنگ بیخبر 1040
- While in regard to the world of thought, O less (lower) than the ass, you are secure and indifferent as a witless stone,
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ز انکه نقشی وز خرد بیبهرهای ** آدمی خو نیستی خر کرهای
- Because you are a (mere) shape and have no portion of intelligence; you are not of human nature, you are an ass's colt.
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سایه را تو شخص میبینی ز جهل ** شخص از آن شد نزد تو بازی و سهل
- From ignorance you deem the shadow to be the substance: hence to you the substance has become a plaything and of slight account.
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باش تا روزی که آن فکر و خیال ** بر گشاید بیحجابی پر و بال
- Wait till the Day when that thought and phantasy unfolds its wings and pinions without any veil (encumbrance).
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کوهها بینی شده چون پشم نرم ** نیست گشته این زمین سرد و گرم
- You will see that the mountains have become soft as wool, (and that) this Earth of hot and cold has become naught;
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نه سما بینی نه اختر نه وجود ** جز خدای واحد حی ودود 1045
- You will see neither the sky nor the stars nor (any) existence but God, the One, the Living, the Loving.
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یک فسانه راست آمد یا دروغ ** تا دهد مر راستیها را فروغ
- Here is a tale, (be it) true or false, to illustrate (these) truths.
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حسد کردن حشم بر غلام خاص
- How the (King's) retainers envied the favourite slave.
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پادشاهی بندهای را از کرم ** بر گزیده بود بر جمله حشم
- A King had, of his grace, preferred a certain slave above all his retinue.