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تا در آن عالم فراغت باشدم ** در چنین درخواست حلقه میزدم
- So that I may have exemption (from it) in yonder world.’ About such-like a request was I knocking at the door .
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این چنین رنجوریی پیدام شد ** جان من از رنج بیآرام شد
- (Thereupon) such a (painful) sickness as this appeared in me: through pain my soul was deprived of rest.
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ماندهام از ذکر و از اوراد خود ** بیخبر گشتم ز خویش و نیک و بد
- I have been left without power to perform my dhikr (commemoration of God) and litanies: I have become unconscious of myself and of (all) good and ill.
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گر نمیدیدم کنون من روی تو ** ای خجسته وی مبارک بوی تو
- If I had not now beheld thy face, O thou whose scent is fortunate and blessed,
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میشدم از دست من یک بارگی ** کردیم شاهانه این غم خوارگی 2480
- I should have passed altogether from the bondage (of this life). Thou in kingly fashion hast bestowed on me this sympathy.”
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گفت هیهی این دعا دیگر مکن ** بر مکن تو خویش را از بیخ و بن
- Said the Prophet, “Hey! do not offer this prayer again: do not dig yourself up from root and base.
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تو چه طاقت داری ای مور نژند ** که نهد بر تو چنان کوه بلند
- What strength have you, O wretched ant, to endure that He should lay on you such a lofty mountain?”
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گفت توبه کردم ای سلطان که من ** از سر جلدی نه لافم هیچ فن
- He answered, “O Sultan, I repent (and vow) that in no wise will I (henceforth) brag recklessly.
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این جهان تیه است و تو موسی و ما ** از گنه در تیه مانده مبتلا
- This world is the Desert (of the Israelites), and thou art Moses, and we because of (our) sin remain in the Desert in tribulation.
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سالها ره میرویم و در اخیر ** همچنان در منزل اول اسیر 2485
- We are wayfaring for years, and at the end we are still held captive in the first stage (of the journey).