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او درون دام دامی مینهد ** جان تو نه این جهد نه آن جهد
- He is within the snare (of God) and is laying a snare: by your life, neither that (snare) will escape (destruction) nor will this (man).
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گر بروید ور بریزد صد گیاه ** عاقبت بر روید آن کشتهی اله
- Though (in the meanwhile) a hundred herbs grow and fade, there will grow up at last that which God has sown.
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کشت نو کارید بر کشت نخست ** این دوم فانی است و آن اول درست
- He (the cunning man) sowed new seed over the first seed; (but) this second (seed) is passing away, and (only) the first is sound (and enduring).
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تخم اول کامل و بگزیده است ** تخم ثانی فاسد و پوسیده است
- The first seed is perfect and choice; the second seed is corrupt and rotten.
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افکن این تدبیر خود را پیش دوست ** گر چه تدبیرت هم از تدبیر اوست 1060
- Cast away this contrivance of yours before the Beloved— though your contrivance indeed is of His contriving.
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کار آن دارد که حق افراشته ست ** آخر آن روید که اول کاشته ست
- That which God has raised (and that alone) has use: what He has at first sown at last grows.
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هر چه کاری از برای او بکار ** چون اسیر دوستی ای دوستدار
- Whatever you sow, sow for His sake, inasmuch as you are the Beloved's captive, O lover.
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گرد نفس دزد و کار او مپیچ ** هر چه آن نه کار حق هیچ است هیچ
- Do not hang about the thievish fleshly soul and its work: whatsoever is not God's work is naught, naught.
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پیش از آن که روز دین پیدا شود ** نزد مالک دزد شب رسوا شود
- (Sow the good seed) ere the Day of Resurrection shall appear and the night-thief be shamed before Him whose is the Kingdom,
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رخت دزدیده به تدبیر و فنش ** مانده روز داوری بر گردنش 1065
- With the goods stolen by his contrivance and craft (still) remaining on his neck at the Day of Judgement.