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زندگی و مرگ سرهنگان او ** بر مراد او روانه کو بکو
- And Life and Death are his officers, going to and fro according to his desire.
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هر کجا خواهد فرستد تعزیت ** هر کجا خواهد ببخشد تهنیت
- He sends (what entails) condolence wheresoever he will; he bestows (what entails) felicitation wheresoever he will.
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سالکان راه هم بر گام او ** ماندگان از راه هم در دام او
- The travellers on the Way (go) according to his pleasure; they that have lost the Way (are fallen) in his snare.
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هیچ دندانی نخندد در جهان ** بی رضا و امر آن فرمان‌روان 1890
- No tooth flashes with laughter in the world without the approval and command of that imperial personage.”
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گفت ای شه راست گفتی همچنین ** در فر و سیمای تو پیداست این
- He (Buhlúl) said, “O King, thou hast spoken truly: ’tis even so: this is manifest in thy (spiritual) radiance and (glorious) aspect.
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این و صد چندینی ای صادق ولیک ** شرح کن این را بیان کن نیک نیک
- Thou art this and a hundred times as much, O veracious one; but expound this (mystery) and explain it very well,
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آنچنانک فاضل و مرد فضول ** چون به گوش او رسد آرد قبول
- In such fashion that (both) the virtuous (wise) and the man given to vanity (folly) may assent when it comes to their ears.
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آنچنانش شرح کن اندر کلام ** که از آن هم بهره یابد عقل عام
- Expound it in thy discourse in such a way that the understanding of the vulgar may profit thereby.”
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ناطق کامل چو خوان‌پاشی بود ** خوانش بر هر گونه‌ی آشی بود 1895
- The perfect speaker is like one who distributes trays of viands, and on whose table is every sort of food,
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که نماند هیچ مهمان بی نوا ** هر کسی یابد غذای خود جدا
- So that no guest remains without provisions, (but) each one gets his (proper) nourishment separately: