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مدتی بر نذر خود بودش وفا ** تا در آمد امتحانات قضا
- For a while he kept his vow faithfully: (he kept it) till the tribulations of Destiny came on.
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زین سبب فرمود استثنا کنید ** گر خدا خواهد به پیمان بر زنید
- On this account He (God) hath commanded, saying, “Make the exception: attach (the words) ‘if God will’ to your promise.
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هر زمان دل را دگر میلی دهم ** هرنفس بر دل دگر داغی نهم
- Every instant I give to the heart a different desire, every moment I lay upon the heart a different brand.
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کل اصباح لنا شان جدید ** کل شیء عن مرادی لا یحید 1640
- At every dawn I have a new employment: nothing turns aside from that (course) which I have willed.”
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در حدیث آمد که دل همچون پریست ** در بیابانی اسیر صرصریست
- It has come down in the Traditions (of the Prophet) that the heart is like a feather in a desert, the captive of a violent blast.
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باد پر را هر طرف راند گزاف ** گه چپ و گه راست با صد اختلاف
- The wind drives the feather recklessly in every direction, now left, now right, with a hundred diversities.
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در حدیث دیگر این دل دان چنان ** کب جوشان ز آتش اندر قازغان
- In another Tradition (the Prophet said), “Deem this heart to be as water boiling in a cauldron from (the heat of) fire.”
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هر زمان دل را دگر رایی بود ** آن نه از وی لیک از جایی بود
- At every time the heart has a different resolution: that (resolution) is not (derived) from it, but from a certain place.
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پس چرا آمن شوی بر رای دل ** عهد بندی تا شوی آخر خجل 1645
- Why, then, will you trust in the heart’s resolution and make a covenant, that in the end you should be shamed?
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این هم از تاثیر حکمست و قدر ** چاه می‌بیینی و نتوانی حذر
- This too is from the effect of the(Divine) ordinance and decree, (that) you see the pit and cannot take precaution.