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پس چو کافر دید کاو در داد و جود ** کمتر و بیمایه تر از خاک بود 1805
- Therefore, when the infidel saw that in giving and lavishing he was meaner and unwealthier than the earth,
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از وجود او گل و میوه نرست ** جز فساد جمله پاکیها نجست
- (That) flowers and fruit did not grow from his being, (and that) he sought (and achieved) nothing but the corruption of all purities,
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گفت واپس رفتهام من در ذهاب ** حسرتا یا لیتنی کنت تراب
- He said, “I have gone backwards in (my) course. Alas! would that I had (still) been earth!
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کاش از خاکی سفر نگزیدمی ** همچو خاکی دانهای میچیدمی
- Would that I had not chosen to travel away from earthiness, (and that) like a clod of earth I had gathered some grain!
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چون سفر کردم مرا راه آزمود ** زین سفر کردن ره آوردم چه بود
- When I travelled, the Way tried me: what was the present I brought (home) from this travelling?”
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ز آن همه میلش سوی خاک است کاو ** در سفر سودی نبیند پیش رو 1810
- ’Tis from all that propensity of his towards earth that he sees before him no profit in the journey.
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روی واپس کردنش آن حرص و آز ** روی در ره کردنش صدق و نیاز
- His turning his face back is that greed and cupidity (of his); his turning his face to the Way is sincerity and supplication.
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هر گیا را کش بود میل علا ** در مزید است و حیات و در نما
- Every herb that has a propensity for (moving) upwards is in (the state of) increase and life and growth;
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چون که گردانید سر سوی زمین ** در کمی و خشکی و نقص و غبین
- When it has turned its head towards the earth, (it is) in (the state of) decrease and dryness and failure and disappointment.
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میل روحت چون سوی بالا بود ** در تزاید مرجعت آن جا بود
- When the propensity of your spirit is upwards, (you are) in (the state of) increase, and that (lofty) place is the place to which you will return;