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باز با خود گفت صبر اولیترست ** صبر تا مقصود زوتر رهبرست
- Again he said to himself, “Patience is better: patience is the quickest guide to the object of one's quest.”
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چون نپرسی زودتر کشفت شود ** مرغ صبر از جمله پران‌تر بود
- When you ask no question, the sooner will it (the secret) be disclosed to you: the bird, patience, flies faster than all (others);
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ور بپرسی دیرتر حاصل شود ** سهل از بی صبریت مشکل شود
- And if you ask, the more slowly will your object be gained: what is easy will be made difficult by your impatience.
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چونک لقمان تن بزد هم در زمان ** شد تمام از صنعت داود آن
- When Luqmán kept silence, straightway that (work of making rings) was finished by David's craftsmanship.
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پس زره سازید و در پوشید او ** پیش لقمان کریم صبرخو 1850
- Then he fashioned a coat of mail and put it on in the presence of the noble and patient Luqmán.
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گفت این نیکو لباسست ای فتی ** درمصاف و جنگ دفع زخم را
- “This,” he said, “is an excellent garment, O young man, for warding off blows on the battle-field and in war.”
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گفت لقمان صبر هم نیکو دمیست ** که پناه و دافع هر جا غمیست
- Luqmán said, “Patience too is of good effect, for it is the protection and defence against pain everywhere.”
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صبر را با حق قرین کرد ای فلان ** آخر والعصر را آگه بخوان
- He (God) hath joined sabr (patience) with haqq (the real and permanent): O reader, recite attentively the end of (the Súra) Wa’l-‘asr.
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صد هزاران کیمیا حق آفرید ** کیمیایی همچو صبر آدم ندید
- God created hundreds of thousands of elixirs, (but) Man hath not seen an elixir like patience.
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بقیه‌ی حکایت نابینا و مصحف
- The remainder of the story of the blind man and his reading the Qur’án.
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مرد مهمان صبرکرد و ناگهان ** کشف گشتش حال مشکل در زمان 1855
- The guest showed patience, and of a sudden the difficult case was unveiled to him all at once.