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گر گریزی بر امید راحتی ** ز آن طرف هم پیشت آید آفتی 590
- If you flee in hope of some relief, on that side also a calamity comes to meet you.
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هیچ کنجی بیدد و بیدام نیست ** جز به خلوتگاه حق آرام نیست
- No corner is without wild beasts; there is no rest but in the place where you are alone with God.
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کنج زندان جهان ناگزیر ** نیست بیپا مزد و بیدق الحصیر
- The corner (narrow cell) of this world's inevitable prison is not exempt from the charges for visitors and (the cost of) housewarming.
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و الله ار سوراخ موشی در روی ** مبتلای گربه چنگالی شوی
- By God, if you go into a mouse-hole, you will be afflicted by some one who has the claws of a cat.
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آدمی را فربهی هست از خیال ** گر خیالاتش بود صاحب جمال
- Man has fatness from (thrives on) fancy, if his fancies are beautiful;
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ور خیالاتش نماید ناخوشی ** میگدازد همچو موم از آتشی 595
- And if his fancies show anything unlovely he melts away as wax (is melted) by a fire.
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در میان مار و کژدم گر ترا ** با خیالات خوشان دارد خدا
- If amidst snakes and scorpions God keep you with the fancies of them that are (spiritually) fair,
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مار و کژدم مر ترا مونس بود ** کان خیالت کیمیای مس بود
- The snakes and scorpions will be friendly to you, because that fancy is the elixir which transmutes your copper (into gold).
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صبر شیرین از خیال خوش شده ست ** کان خیالات فرج پیش آمده ست
- Patience is sweetened by fair fancy, since (in that case) the fancies of relief (from pain) have come before (the mind).
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آن فرج آید ز ایمان در ضمیر ** ضعف ایمان ناامیدی و زحیر
- That relief comes into the heart from faith: weakness of faith is despair and torment.