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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.
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هر زمان در گلشن شکر خدا ** او بر آرد همچو بلبل صد نوا
- Every moment, in the rose-garden of thanksgiving to God, it will produce a hundred (sweet) notes, like the nightingale,
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کای رهاننده مرا از وصف زشت ** ای کننده دوزخی را تو بهشت
- Singing, “O Thou that deliverest me from evil qualities! O Thou that makest a hell Paradise!
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در یکی پیهی نهی تو روشنی ** استخوانی را دهی سمع ای غنی 3290
- Thou puttest light in a piece of fat; Thou, O Self-sufficing One, givest (the sense of) hearing to a bone.”