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طالع عیسی است علم و معرفت ** طالع خر نیست ای تو خر صفت
- Knowledge and gnosis are the fortune of Jesus; they are not the fortune of the ass, O you asinine one!
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نالهی خر بشنوی رحم آیدت ** پس ندانی خر خری فرمایدت
- You listen to the moaning of the ass, and pity comes over you; then you know not (that) the ass commands you to be asinine.
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رحم بر عیسی کن و بر خر مکن ** طبع را بر عقل خود سرور مکن
- Have pity on Jesus and have no pity on the ass: do not make the (carnal) nature lord over your intellect.
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طبع را هل تا بگرید زار زار ** تو از او بستان و وام جان گزار
- Let the (carnal) nature weep sore and bitterly: do you take from it and pay the debt of the (rational) soul.
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سالها خربنده بودی بس بود ** ز انکه خربنده ز خر واپس بود 1855
- For years you have been the ass's slave. It is enough, for the ass's slave is behind (even) the ass.
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ز اخروهن مرادش نفس تست ** کاو به آخر باید و عقلت نخست
- The thing meant by (the Prophet's words) “put them (the women) behind” is your fleshly soul; for it must be last, and your intellect (must be) first.
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هم مزاج خر شده ست این عقل پست ** فکرش این که چون علف آرم بدست
- This base intellect has become of the same temperament as the ass: its (only) thought is how it shall get hold of fodder.
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آن خر عیسی مزاج دل گرفت ** در مقام عاقلان منزل گرفت
- The ass of Jesus took (to itself) the temperament of the (rational) spirit: it took its abode in the place of the intelligent,
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ز انکه غالب عقل بود و خر ضعیف ** از سوار زفت گردد خر نحیف
- Because (in Jesus) intellect was ruling, and the ass (was) weak —the ass is made lean by a strong rider—
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و ز ضعیفی عقل تو ای خر بها ** این خر پژمرده گشته ست اژدها 1860
- While from the weakness of your intellect, O you who have (no more than) the value of an ass, this worn-out ass has become a dragon.