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از ضرورت کردم این گستاخیی ** من ز ادب دارم شکسته‌شاخیی 3245
- I did this presumptuous act from necessity: I am abashed by (my feeling of) reverence (for thee).
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وای کو گستاخ پایی می‌نهد ** بی ضرورت کش هوا فتوی دهد
- Woe to him that steps (behaves) presumptuously without necessity (and only) because vain desire authorises him!”
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پس رسولش شکر کرد و گفت ما ** این جفا دیدیم و بود این خود وفا
- Then the Prophet thanked her (the eagle) and said, “I deemed this (act of thine) rudeness, but it really was kindness.
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موزه بربودی و من درهم شدم ** تو غمم بردی و من در غم شدم
- Thou didst carry off the boot, and I was perturbed: thou took’st away my grief, and I was aggrieved.
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گرچه هر غیبی خدا ما را نمود ** دل در آن لحظه به خود مشغول بود
- Although God hath shown to me every unseen thing, at that moment my heart was occupied with myself.”
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گفت دور از تو که غفلت در تو رست ** دیدنم آن غیب را هم عکس تست 3250
- She (the eagle) said, “Far be it from thee that forgetfulness grew up in thee: my seeing that invisible thing is (from) thy reflexion.
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مار در موزه ببینم بر هوا ** نیست از من عکس تست ای مصطفی
- (If) I, in the air, see the serpent in the boot, ’tis not of myself, ’tis thy reflexion, O Mustafá.”
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عکس نورانی همه روشن بود ** عکس ظلمانی همه گلخن بود
- The reflexion of the man of light is wholly resplendent; the reflexion of the man of darkness is wholly (like) a bath-stove (ash-heap).
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عکس عبدالله همه نوری بود ** عکس بیگانه همه کوری بود
- The reflexion of the servant of God is wholly luminous; the reflexion of the stranger (to God) is wholly blindness.
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عکس هر کس را بدان ای جان ببین ** پهلوی جنسی که خواهی می‌نشین
- Know every one's reflexion: see (it plainly), O my soul. (Then) ever sit beside the congener whom thou desirest.
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وجه عبرت گرفتن ازین حکایت و یقین دانستن کی ان مع العسر یسرا
- The right way of taking a lesson from this story and knowing with certainty that “verily, together with hardship there is ease.”