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گفت پیغمبر که در بازارها ** دو فرشته میکنند ایدر دعا 380
- The prophet said that two angels are (always) praying here in the markets, (saying),
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کای خدا تو منفقان را ده خلف ** ای خدا تو ممسکان را ده تلف
- “O God, do Thou give the prodigal a boon in return, and O God do Thou give the miserly a bane (in return).”
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خاصه آن منفق که جان انفاق کرد ** حلق خود قربانی خلاق کرد
- Especially (does this apply to) the prodigal who has freely spent his soul (life) and made his throat a sacrifice to the Creator.
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حلق پیش آورد اسماعیلوار ** کارد بر حلقش نیارد کرد کار
- He offers his throat, like Ismá‘íl (Ishmael): the knife cannot do anything to (hurt) his throat.
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پس شهیدان زنده زین رویند و خوش ** تو بدان قالب بمنگر گبروش
- On this account, then, the martyrs are living and joyous: do not, infidel-like, look at the body (alone),
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چون خلف دادستشان جان بقا ** جان ایمن از غم و رنج و شقا 385
- Since God hath given them in return the spirit of everlastingness—a spirit safe from grief and pain and misery.
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شیخ وامی سالها این کار کرد ** میستد میداد همچون پای مرد
- The debtor Shaykh acted in this fashion for years, taking and giving like a steward.
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تخمها میکاشت تا روز اجل ** تا بود روز اجل میر اجل
- He was sowing seeds till the day of death, that on the day of death he might be a most glorious prince.
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چون که عمر شیخ در آخر رسید ** در وجود خود نشان مرگ دید
- When the Shaykh's life reached its end and he saw in his (bodily) existence the signs of death,
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وامداران گرد او بنشسته جمع ** شیخ بر خود خوش گدازان همچو شمع
- The creditors were seated together around him, (while) the Shaykh was gently melting on himself, like a candle.