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صبر از ایمان بیابد سر کله ** حیث لا صبر فلا إیمان له 600
- Patience gains a crown from faith: where one hath no patience, he hath no faith.
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گفت پیغمبر خداش ایمان نداد ** هر که را صبری نباشد در نهاد
- The Prophet said, “God has not given faith to any one in whose nature there is no patience.”
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آن یکی در چشم تو باشد چو مار ** هم وی اندر چشم آن دیگر نگار
- That same one (who) in your eyes is like a snake is a picture (of beauty) in the eyes of another,
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ز انکه در چشمت خیال کفر اوست ** و آن خیال مومنی در چشم دوست
- Because in your eyes is the fancy of his being an infidel, while in the eyes of his friend is the fancy of his being a (true) believer;
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کاندر این یک شخص هر دو فعل هست ** گاه ماهی باشد او و گاه شست
- For both the effects (belief and unbelief) exist in this one person: now he is a fish and now a hook.
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نیم او مومن بود نیمیش گبر ** نیم او حرص آوری نیمیش صبر 605
- Half of him is believer, half of him infidel; half of him cupidity, half of him patience (and abstinence).
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گفت یزدانت فمنکم مومن ** باز منکم کافر گبر کهن
- Your God has said, “(Some) of you (are) believing”; (and) again, “(Some) of you (are) unbelieving” (as) an old fire-worshipper.
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همچو گاوی نیمهی چپش سیاه ** نیمهی دیگر سپید همچو ماه
- (He is) like an ox, his left half black, the other half white as the moon.
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هر که این نیمه ببیند رد کند ** هر که آن نیمه ببیند کد کند
- Whoever sees the former half spurns (him); whoever sees the latter half seeks (after him).
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یوسف اندر چشم اخوان چون ستور ** هم وی اندر چشم یعقوبی چو حور
- Joseph was like a beast of burden in the eyes of his brethren; at the same time in the eyes of a Jacob he was like a houri.