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زاهدی بیند بگوید ای کیا ** همتی می‌دار از بهر خدا
- (If) he sees an ascetic, he will say, “O venerable sir, bestow on me a benediction for God’s sake,
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کاندرین ادبار زشت افتاده‌ام ** مال و زر و نعمت از کف داده‌ام
- For I have fallen into this ugly misfortune and have let wealth and gold and happiness go from my hand.
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همتی تا بوک من زین وا رهم ** زین گل تیره بود که بر جهم 1655
- (Give me) a benediction, so that maybe I shall be delivered from this (woe) and maybe escape from this dark clay.
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این دعا می‌خواهد او از عام و خاص ** کالخلاص و الخلاص و الخلاص
- He is begging this prayer of high and low, crying, “Release and release and release!”
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دست باز و پای باز و بند نی ** نه موکل بر سرش نه آهنی
- His hand is free and his foot free, and there is no chain, no custodian (standing) over him, no iron (gyve).
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از کدامین بند می‌جویی خلاص ** وز کدامین حبس می‌جویی مناص
- From what chain art thou seeking release, and from what imprisonment art thou seeking to escape?
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بند تقدیر و قضای مختفی ** کی نبیند آن بجز جان صفی
- (From) the hidden chain of fore-ordainment and destiny, which none but the elect spirit may behold.
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گرچه پیدا نیست آن در مکمنست ** بتر از زندان و بند آهنست 1660
- Though it is not visible, it is (there) in ambush; it is worse that prison and chains of iron,
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زانک آهنگر مر آن را بشکند ** حفره گر هم خشت زندان بر کند
- Because that (iron chain) the ironsmith may break, and the excavator may even dig up the bricks (foundations) of the prison;
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ای عجب این بند پنهان گران ** عاجز از تکسیر آن آهنگران
- (But), O wonder, this heavy hidden chain the ironsmiths are powerless to shatter.