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حکمت قرآن چو ضالهی مومن است ** هر کسی در ضالهی خود موقن است 2910
- The Wisdom of the Qur’án is like the true believer's stray camel: every one has certain (intuitive) knowledge of his own stray.
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قصهی آن شخص که اشتر ضالهی خود میجست و میپرسید
- Story of the person who was seeking after his stray camel and inquiring about it.
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اشتری گم کردی و جستیش چست ** چون بیابی چون ندانی کان تست
- (If) you have lost a camel and sought it busily, how should you not know,when you find it, that it is yours?
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ضاله چه بود ناقهای گم کردهای ** از کفت بگریخته در پردهای
- What is the stray? You have lost a she-camel: (she has) fled from your herd into a veil (of concealment).
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آمده در بار کردن کاروان ** اشتر تو ز آن میان گشته نهان
- The caravaneers have begun to load, (but) your camel has disappeared from the midst (of the caravan).
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میدوی این سو و آن سو خشک لب ** کاروان شد دور و نزدیک است شب
- You are running to and fro with parched lips; the caravan is (now) far away, and night is near.
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رخت مانده بر زمین در راه خوف ** تو پی اشتر دوان گشته به طوف 2915
- Your baggage is left on the ground, (lying) on the road of peril, (whilst) you are running about in search of the camel,
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کای مسلمانان که دیده ست اشتری ** جسته بیرون بامداد از آخوری
- Crying, “O Moslems, who has seen a camel which this morning escaped from a stable?
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هر که بر گوید نشان از اشترم ** مژدگانی میدهم چندین درم
- Whoever will tell (me) a clue to my camel, I will give so many dirhems as a reward (for the information).”
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باز میجویی نشان از هر کسی ** ریشخندت میکند زین هر خسی
- You are requesting clues from every one: every rascal is making a mock of you on this account,
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کاشتری دیدیم میرفت این طرف ** اشتر سرخی به سوی آن علف
- Saying, “We saw a camel going in this direction, a reddish camel (going) towards yonder pasturage.”