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سر نخواهی که رود تو پای باش ** در پناه قطب صاحب رای باش
- If you wish not your head to be lost, be (lowly as) a foot: be under the protection of the Qutb who is possessed of discernment.
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گر چه شاهی خویش فوق او مبین ** گر چه شهدی جز نبات او مچین 1985
- Though you be a king, deem not yourself above him: though you be honey, gather naught but his sugar-cane.
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فکر تو نقش است و فکر اوست جان ** نقد تو قلب است و نقد اوست کان
- Your thought is the outward form, and his thought is the soul: your coin is false, and his coin is (pure as) the mine.
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او تویی خود را بجو در اوی او ** کو و کو گو فاخته شو سوی او
- You are (really) he: seek yourself in his “he” (personality). Say coo, coo: become a dove (flying) towards him.
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ور نخواهی خدمت ابنای جنس ** در دهان اژدهایی همچو خرس
- And if you are unwilling to serve the (holy) men of (human) kind, you are in the dragon's mouth, like the bear.
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بو که استادی رهاند مر ترا ** و ز خطر بیرون کشاند مر ترا
- It may be that a Master will deliver you and pull you out of danger.
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زاریی میکن چو زورت نیست هین ** چون که کوری سر مکش از راه بین 1990
- As you have no strength, keep making a lamentation; since you are blind, take care, do not turn your head away from him that sees the road.
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تو کم از خرسی نمینالی ز درد ** خرس رست از درد چون فریاد کرد
- You are less (worse) than the bear, (for) you are not wailing at the pain. The bear was freed from pain when it made an outcry.
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ای خدا این سنگ دل را موم کن ** نالهی ما را خوش و مرحوم کن
- O God, make this stony heart (soft as) wax; make our wailing sweet (to Thee) and an object of (Thy) mercy!
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گفتن نابینای سائل که دو کوری دارم
- How a sightless beggar said, “I have two blindnesses.”
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بود کوری کاو همیگفت الامان ** من دو کوری دارم ای اهل زمان
- There was a blind man who used to say, “Pity! I have two blindnesses, O people of the time.