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عیسی اندر مهد بر دارد نفیر ** که جوان ناگشته ما شیخیم و پیر
- Jesus in the cradle raises a cry, saying, “Without having become a youth, I am a Shaykh and a Pír.”
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گر رهید از بعض اوصاف بشر ** شیخ نبود کهل باشد ای پسر 1795
- If he (the Súfí) has been delivered from (only) a part of the attributes of (sensual) men, he is not a Shaykh; he is grey (middle-aged), O son.
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چون یکی موی سیه کان وصف ماست ** نیست بر وی شیخ و مقبول خداست
- When there is not on him a single black hair (of the self-existence) which is our attribute, (then) he is a Shaykh and accepted of God;
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چون بود مویش سپید ار با خودست ** او نه پیرست و نه خاص ایزدست
- (But) if, when his hair is white, he is (still) with himself (self-existent), he is not a Pír and is not the elect of God;
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ور سر مویی ز وصفش باقیست ** او نه از عرش است او آفاقیست
- And if a single hair-tip of his (sensual) attributes is surviving, he is not of heaven: he belongs to the (material) world.
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عذر گفتن شیخ بهر ناگریستن بر فرزندان
- How the Shaykh excused himself for not weeping on the death of his sons.
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شیخ گفت او را مپندار ای رفیق ** که ندارم رحم و مهر و دل شفیق
- The Shaykh said to her (his wife), “Do not think, O gracious one, that I have not pity and affection and a compassionate heart.
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بر همه کفار ما را رحمتست ** گرچه جان جمله کافر نعمتست 1800
- I have pity for all the unbelievers, though the souls of them all are ungrateful.
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بر سگانم رحمت و بخشایش است ** که چرا از سنگهاشان مالش است
- I have pity and forgiveness for dogs, saying (to myself), ‘Why do they suffer chastisement from the stones (which are cast at them)?’
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آن سگی که می‌گزد گویم دعا ** که ازین خو وا رهانش ای خدا
- I utter a prayer for the dog that bites, crying, ‘O God, deliver him from this (evil) disposition!
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این سگان را هم در آن اندیشه دار ** که نباشند از خلایق سنگسار
- Keep also these dogs in that (good) thought, so that they may not be stoned by the people.’”