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کرمکست آن اژدها از دست فقر ** پشه‌ای گردد ز جاه و مال صقر
- That dragon, under stress of poverty, is a little worm, (but) a gnat is made a falcon by power and riches.
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اژدها را دار در برف فراق ** هین مکش او را به خورشید عراق
- Keep the dragon in the snow of separation (from its desires); beware, do not carry it into the sun of ‘Iráq.
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تا فسرده می‌بود آن اژدهات ** لقمه‌ی اویی چو او یابد نجات
- So long as that dragon of thine remains frozen, (well and good); thou art a mouthful for it, when it gains release.
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مات کن او را و آمن شو ز مات ** رحم کم کن نیست او ز اهل صلات
- Mortify it and become safe from (spiritual) death; have no mercy: it is not one of them that deserve favours;
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کان تف خورشید شهوت بر زند ** آن خفاش مردریگت پر زند 1060
- For (when) the heat of the sun of lust strikes upon it, that vile bat of thine flaps its wings.
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می‌کشانش در جهاد و در قتال ** مردوار الله یجزیک الوصال
- Lead it manfully to the (spiritual) warfare and battle: God will reward thee with access (to Him).
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چونک آن مرد اژدها را آورید ** در هوای گرم خوش شد آن مرید
- When that man brought the dragon into the hot air, the insolent brute became well (again),
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لاجرم آن فتنه‌ها کرد ای عزیز ** بیست همچندان که ما گفتیم نیز
- Inevitably it wrought those mischiefs, my dear friend, (and others) too, twenty times as many as we have told.
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تو طمع داری که او را بی جفا ** بسته داری در وقار و در وفا
- Dost thou hope, without using violence, to keep it bound in quiet and faithfulness?
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هر خسی را این تمنی کی رسد ** موسیی باید که اژدرها کشد 1065
- How should this wish be fulfilled for any worthless one? It needs a Moses to kill the dragon.