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آن نبد بیگار کسبی بود چست ** هر یکی دانه که کشتم صد برست
- ’Twas not labour without hire; ’twas an excellent earning: (for) every grain that I sowed, a hundred grew.
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دزد سوی خانهای شد زیر دست ** چون در آمد دید کان خانهی خود است 3010
- The thief went underhand (by stealth) to a certain house: when he entered, he saw that it was his own house.”
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گرم باش ای سرد تا گرمی رسد ** با درشتی ساز تا نرمی رسد
- Be hot, O cold one, that heat may come: put up with roughness, that ease may come.
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آن دو اشتر نیست آن یک اشتر است ** تنگ آمد لفظ معنی بس پر است
- That (subject of my discourse) is not two camels; it is a single camel. Verbal expression is confined, the meaning (to be expressed) is very full.
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لفظ در معنی همیشه نارسان ** ز آن پیمبر گفت قد کل لسان
- The expression always fails to reach the meaning; hence the Prophet said, “(Whoso knows God), his tongue falters.”
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نطق اصطرلاب باشد در حساب ** چه قدر داند ز چرخ و آفتاب
- Speech is (like) an astrolabe in (its) reckoning: how much does it know of the sky and the sun?—
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خاصه چرخی کاین فلک زو پرهای است ** آفتاب از آفتابش ذرهای است 3015
- Especially, of that Sky whereof this heaven is (no more than) a blade of straw; (that Sky) of whose Sun the (terrestrial) sun is (but) a mote?
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بیان آن که در هر نفسی فتنهی مسجد ضرار است
- Showing that there is in every soul the mischief of the Mosque of Opposition.
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چون پدید آمد که آن مسجد نبود ** خانهی حیلت بد و دام جهود
- When it appeared that that was not a mosque, (but) was a house of intrigue and a trap laid by the Jews,
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پس نبی فرمود کان را بر کنید ** مطرحهی خاشاک و خاکستر کنید
- The Prophet then gave the command (and said), “Rase it and make it a dumping-place for rubbish and ashes.”
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صاحب مسجد چو مسجد قلب بود ** دانهها بر دام ریزی نیست جود
- The founder of the Mosque was false, like the Mosque (itself): ‘tis not munificence if you sprinkle grain upon a snare.