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بر خلاف قول اهل اعتزال ** که عقول از اصل دارند اعتدال 1540
- In contradiction to the doctrine of the Mu‘tazilites, who hold that (all) intellects were originally equal,
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تجربه و تعلیم بیش و کم کند ** تا یکی را از یکی اعلم کند
- (And who maintain that) experience and teaching makes them more or less, so that it makes one person more knowing than another.
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باطلست این زانک رای کودکی ** که ندارد تجربه در مسلکی
- This is false, because the counsel of a boy who has not experience in any course of action—
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بر دمید اندیشه‌ای زان طفل خرد ** پیر با صد تجربه بویی نبرد
- From that small child sprang up a thought (which) the old man with a hundred experiences did not smell out (detect and apprehend) at all.
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خود فزون آن به که آن از فطرتست ** تا ز افزونی که جهد و فکرتست
- Truly, the superiority that is from (any one's) nature is even better than the superiority that is (the result of) endeavour and reflection.
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تو بگو داده‌ی خدا بهتر بود ** یاکه لنگی راهوارانه رود 1545
- Tell (me), is the gift of God better, or (is it better) that a lame person should (learn to) walk smoothly (without stumbling)?
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در وهم افکندن کودکان اوستاد را
- How the boys made the teacher imagine (that he was ill).
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روز گشت و آمدند آن کودکان ** بر همین فکرت ز خانه تا دکان
- Day broke, and those boys, (intent) on this thought, came from their homes to the shop (school).
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جمله استادند بیرون منتظر ** تا درآید اول آن یار مصر
- They all stood outside, waiting for that resolute fellow to go in first,
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زانک منبع او بدست این رای را ** سر امام آید همیشه پای را
- Because he was the source of this plan: the head is always an Imám (leader and guide) to the foot.
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ای مقلد تو مجو بیشی بر آن ** کو بود منبع ز نور آسمان
- O imitator (follower of convention and tradition), do not thou seek precedence over one who is a source of the heavenly light.