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دوستان بین، کو نشان دوستان ** دوستان را رنج باشد همچو جان
- See the friends! Where is the sign of (true) friends? To (true) friends pain is as (dear as) life.”
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کی کران گیرد ز رنج دوست دوست ** رنج مغز و دوستی آن را چو پوست
- How should a friend turn aside from the pain inflicted by his friend? Pain is the kernel, and friendship is (only) as the husk to it.
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نه نشان دوستی شد سر خوشی ** در بلا و آفت و محنت کشی 1460
- Has not joy in tribulation and calamity and suffering become the sign of (true) friendship?
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دوست همچون زر بلا چون آتش است ** زر خالص در دل آتش خوش است
- A friend is like gold, tribulation is like the fire: the pure gold is glad in the heart of the fire.
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امتحان کردن خواجهی لقمان زیرکی لقمان را
- How Luqmán's master tested his sagacity.
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نه که لقمان را که بندهی پاک بود ** روز و شب در بندگی چالاک بود
- (Was it) not (the case) that (this happened) to Luqmán, who was a pure (unselfish) slave, and day and night was brisk in service?
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خواجهاش میداشتی در کار پیش ** بهترش دیدی ز فرزندان خویش
- His master used to prefer him (to all others) in the work (of service) and deem him better than his own sons,
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ز انکه لقمان گر چه بنده زاد بود ** خواجه بود و از هوا آزاد بود
- Because Luqmán, though he was slave-born, was the master (of himself) and was free from sensual desire.
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گفت شاهی شیخ را اندر سخن ** چیزی از بخشش ز من درخواست کن 1465
- A certain king said to the Shaykh (spiritual Director) in conversation, “Ask me to bestow some bounty upon thee.”
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گفت ای شه شرم ناید مر ترا ** که چنین گویی مرا زین برتر آ
- He answered, “O King, are not you ashamed to say such a thing to me? Come higher!
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من دو بنده دارم و ایشان حقیر ** و آن دو بر تو حاکمانند و امیر
- I have two slaves, and they are vile, and those two are rulers and lords over you.”