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آفتاب و ماه و این استارگان ** جز به حاجت کی پدید آمد عیان
- The sun and moon and these stars—how did they come plain into view except through need?
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پس کمند هستها حاجت بود ** قدر حاجت مرد را آلت دهد
- Need, then is the noose for (all) things that exsist: He (God) gives to Man instruments in proportion to his need.
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پس بیفزا حاجت ای محتاج زود ** تا بجوشد در کرم دریای جود 3280
- Therefore quickly augment thy need, O needy one, in order that the Sea of Bounty may surge up in loving kindness.
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این گدایان بر ره و هر مبتلا ** حاجت خود مینماید خلق را
- These beggars (are) on the (public) road, and every sufferer (among them) is displaying his need to the people—
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کوری و شلی و بیماری و درد ** تا از این حاجت بجنبد رحم مرد
- Blindness and palsy and sickness and pain—that men's pity may be aroused by this need.
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هیچ گوید نان دهید ای مردمان ** که مرا مال است و انبار است و خوان
- Does he (any one) ever say, “Give bread, O people, for I have riches and granaries and trays (of viands)?”
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چشم ننهادهست حق در کور موش ** ز انکه حاجت نیست چشمش بهر نوش
- God has not put eyes in the mole, because it does not need eyes for (getting) food.
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میتواند زیست بیچشم و بصر ** فارغ است از چشم او در خاک تر 3285
- It is able to live without eyes and sight: in the dank earth it is independent of eyes.
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جز به دزدی او برون ناید ز خاک ** تا کند خالق از آن دزدیش پاک
- It never comes out from the earth but for theft, to the end that the Creator may purge it of that thievishness.
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بعد از آن پر یابد و مرغی شود ** چون ملایک جانب گردون رود
- After that (purification), it will get wings and become a bird, like the angels, it will go towards heaven.