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جمله می‌گفتند کین مسکین مست ** از قضاء الله دیوانه شدست 2020
- They all would have said, ‘By Divine destiny this poor intoxicated wretch has become mad:
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مغز این مسکین ز سودای دراز ** وز ریاضت گشت فاسد چون پیاز
- Through long melancholy and through austerities the brain of this poor wretch has turned putrid, like an onion.’
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او عجب می‌ماند یا رب حال چیست ** خلق را این پرده و اضلال چیست
- He would have remained in astonishment, saying, ‘O Lord, what is the matter? What is this veil (blindness) and misguidance that is upon the people?’
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خلق گوناگون با صد رای و عقل ** یک قدم آن سو نمی‌آرند نقل
- The people of every sort, (though endowed) with manifold discernment and understanding, do not move a foot in that direction.
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عاقلان و زیرکانشان ز اتفاق ** گشته منکر زین چنین باغی و عاق
- By one consent the intelligent and acute amongst them have become incredulous of such a garden as this and undutiful.
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یا منم دیوانه و خیره شده ** دیو چیزی مرا مرا بر سر زده 2025
- Or have I become mad and crazy? Has the Devil cast something (of delusion) upon my head?
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چشم می‌مالم بهر لحظه که من ** خواب می‌بینم خیال اندر زمن
- At every moment I rub my eyes, (considering) whether I am dreaming and beholding a phantom in (the world of) time.
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خواب چه بود بر درختان می‌روم ** میوه‌هاشان می‌خورم چون نگروم
- How can it be a dream? I go up the trees, I eat their fruit: how should I not believe?
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باز چون من بنگرم در منکران ** که همی‌گیرند زین بستان کران
- (But) again, when I look at the incredulous ones who turn aside from this orchard,
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با کمال احتیاج و افتقار ** ز آرزوی نیم غوره جانسپار
- Devoting their lives with the utmost indigence and penury because of their desire for half an unripe grape;