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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.
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جامگی او وظیفهی چل امیر ** ده یک قدرش ندیدی صد وزیر
- His allowance was the stipend of forty Amírs; a hundred Viziers would not see (receive) a tenth of its amount.
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از کمال طالع و اقبال و بخت ** او ایازی بود و شه محمود وقت
- Through the perfection of (his) natal star and prosperity and fortune he was an Ayáz, while the King was the Mahmúd of the time.
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روح او با روح شه در اصل خویش ** پیش از این تن بوده هم پیوند و خویش 1050
- His spirit in its origin, before (the creation of) this body, was near-related and akin to the King's spirit.
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کار آن دارد که پیش از تن بده ست ** بگذر از اینها که نو حادث شده ست
- (Only) that matters which has existed before the body; leave (behind you) these things which have newly sprung into being.
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کار عارف راست کاو نه احول است ** چشم او بر کشتهای اول است
- That which matters belongs to the knower (of God), for he is not squinting: his eye is (fixed) upon the things first sown.