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ای برادر طفل طفل چشم تست ** کام خود موقوف زاری دان درست
- O brother, the child (boy) is the child (pupil) of your eye: know surely that (the gaining of) your desire is dependent on (tears of) distress.
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گر همیخواهی که آن خلعت رسد ** پس بگریان طفل دیده بر جسد
- If you wish that that robe of honour (which you desire) should come (to you), then make the child (pupil) of your eye weep over your body.
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ترسانیدن شخصی زاهد را که کم گری تا کور نشوی
- How a certain person frightened an ascetic, saying, “Weep little, lest thou become blind.”
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زاهدی را گفت یاری در عمل ** کم گری تا چشم را ناید خلل 445
- A comrade in the work (of religion) said to an ascetic, “Weep little, lest thine eye come to harm.”
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گفت زاهد از دو بیرون نیست حال ** چشم بیند یا نبیند آن جمال
- The ascetic said, “The case is not outside of (admits only) two (alternatives): the eye will see, or it will not see, that (Divine) Beauty.
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گر ببیند نور حق خود چه غم است ** در وصال حق دو دیده چه کم است
- If it see the Light of God, what is there to grieve about? How little are two eyes (to him that is) in union with God!
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ور نخواهد دید حق را گو برو ** این چنین چشم شقی گو کور شو
- And if it shall not see God, let it go! Let such a miserable eye become blind!”
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غم مخور از دیده کان عیسی تراست ** چپ مرو تا بخشدت دو چشم راست
- Do not grieve for your eye when that Jesus is yours; do not go to the left (but to the right), that he may give you two right (sound) eyes.
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عیسی روح تو با تو حاضر است ** نصرت از وی خواه کاو خوش ناصر است 450
- The Jesus of your spirit is present with you: beg aid from him, for he is a goodly aider;
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لیک بیگار تن پر استخوان ** بر دل عیسی منه تو هر زمان
- But do not every moment lay on the heart of (that) Jesus the unprofitable work of (providing for) a body full of bones,
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همچو آن ابله که اندر داستان ** ذکر او کردیم بهر راستان
- Like the fool whom we mentioned in the story for the sake of the righteous.