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که من این را بس شنیدم کهنه شد ** چیز دیگر گو بجز آن ای عضد
- ‘I have heard this many a time; it has become old: tell something else besides this, O trusty friend.’
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چیز دیگر تازه و نو گفته گیر ** باز فردا زان شوی سیر و نفیر
- Suppose that something else fresh and new has been said, again to-morrow thou art surfeited with it and averse.
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دفع علت کن چو علت خو شود ** هرحدیثی کهنه پیشت نو شود
- Remove the disease: when the disease is eradicated, every old tale will become new to thee,
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تا که از کهنه برآرد برگ نو ** بشکفاند کهنه صد خوشه ز گو
- So that it will bring forth new leaves from the old (bough): the old (tale) will cause a hundred clusters to blossom from the ditch.
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ما طبیبانیم شاگردان حق ** بحر قلزم دید ما را فانفلق 2700
- We are the (spiritual) physicians, the disciples of God: the Red Sea beheld us and was cloven.
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آن طبیبان طبیعت دیگرند ** که به دل از راه نبضی بنگرند
- Those natural physicians are different, for they look into the heart by means of a pulse.
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ما به دل بی واسطه خوش بنگریم ** کز فراست ما به عالی منظریم
- We look well into the heart without intermediary, for through clairvoyance we are in a high belvedere.
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آن طبیبان غذااند و ثمار ** جان حیوانی بدیشان استوار
- Those (others) are physicians of food and fruit: by them the animal soul is (made) strong.
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ما طبیبان فعالیم و مقال ** ملهم ما پرتو نور جلال
- We are physicians of deeds and words: the ray of the light of (Divine) Majesty is our inspirer,
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کین چنین فعلی ترا نافع بود ** و آنچنان فعلی ز ره قاطع بود 2705
- (So that we know) that a deed like this will be beneficial to thee, while a deed like that will cut (thee) off from the Way;