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ز آن که بر دل نقش تقلید است بند ** رو به آب چشم بندش را برند
- Inasmuch as the stamp of blind imitation is (as) a lock upon the heart;-go, scrape off (dissolve) its lock with tears-;
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ز آن که تقلید آفت هر نیکویی است ** که بود تقلید اگر کوه قوی است
- Inasmuch as imitation is the bane of every good quality; imitation is (but) a straw, (even) if it is a mighty mountain.
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گر ضریری لمترست و تیز خشم ** گوشت پارهش دان چو او را نیست چشم 485
- If a blind man is big and choleric, deem him (only) a piece of flesh, since he has no eye (eye-sight).
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گر سخن گوید ز مو باریکتر ** آن سرش را ز آن سخن نبود خبر
- Though he (the blind imitator) speak words finer than a hair, his heart has no knowledge of these words.
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مستیی دارد ز گفت خود و لیک ** از بر وی تا به می راهی است نیک
- He has a certain intoxication from his own words, but there is a good way (distance) between him and the Wine.
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همچو جوی است او نه او آبی خورد ** آب از او بر آب خواران بگذرد
- He is like a river-bed: it does not drink any water; the water passes through it to the water-drinkers.
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آب در جو ز آن نمیگیرد قرار ** ز آن که آن جو نیست تشنه و آب خوار
- The water does not settle in the river-bed because the river-bed is not thirsty and water-drinking.
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همچو نایی نالهی زاری کند ** لیک بیگار خریداری کند 490
- Like a reed-flute, he makes a piteous lament, but he (only) seeks a purchaser (admirer).
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نوحهگر باشد مقلد در حدیث ** جز طمع نبود مراد آن خبیث
- The imitator in his discourse is (like) a professional mourner: that wicked man has no motive except cupidity.
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نوحهگر گوید حدیث سوزناک ** لیک کو سوز دل و دامان چاک
- The professional mourner utters burning words (of grief), but where is the glow of heart (heartfelt sorrow) and the rent skirt?