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چون کند اصرار و بد پیشه کند ** خاک اندر چشم اندیشه کند
- (But) when he persists (in sin) and makes a practice of evil, and puts dust in the eye of meditation,
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توبه نندیشد دگر شیرین شود ** بر دلش آن جرم تا بیدین شود
- He thinks of penitence no more: that sin becomes so sweet to his heart that (in the end) he comes to be without the Faith (he turns infidel).
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آن پشیمانی و یا رب رفت از او ** شست بر آیینه زنگ پنج تو 3380
- That repenting and (crying) “O Lord!” are gone from him: fivefold rust has settled on the mirror (of his heart).
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آهنش را زنگها خوردن گرفت ** گوهرش را زنگ کم کردن گرفت
- The coats of rust have began to eat his iron (mirror): the rust has begun to lessen its sheen.
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چون نویسی کاغذ اسپید بر ** آن نبشته خوانده آید در نظر
- When you write upon white paper, that writing may be read at sight.
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چون نویسی بر سر بنوشته خط ** فهم ناید خواندنش گردد غلط
- When you write script over that which has been (already) written, it is not understood: the reading of it will be erroneous;
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کان سیاهی بر سیاهی اوفتاد ** هر دو خط شد کور و معنیی نداد
- For that (second) blackness has fallen (been made) upon blackness; (hence) both scripts have become obscure and have given no meaning.
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ور سوم باره نویسی بر سرش ** پس سیه کردی چو جان کافرش 3385
- And if you write a third time on the top of it, then you make it black as a soul full of wickedness.
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پس چه چاره جز پناه چارهگر ** ناامیدی مس و اکسیرش نظر
- What help is there, then, but (to take) refuge with (God) the Helper? Despair is copper, and the elixir for it is (God's) regard.
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ناامیدیها به پیش او نهید ** تا ز درد بیدوا بیرون جهید
- Lay your despairs before Him, that ye may escape from irremediable pain.