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پیش شیخی در بخارا اندری ** تا به خواری در بخارا ننگری
- In the presence of a Shaykh you are in “Bukhárá”: see that you do not look on “Bukhárá” as lowly.
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جز به خواری در بخارای دلش ** راه ندهد جزر و مد مشکلش
- Save with lowliness (shown by you), its difficult ebb and flow will not give (you) entrance into the “Bukhárá” of his heart.
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ای خنک آن را که ذلت نفسه ** وای آنکس را که یردی رفسه
- Oh, happy he whose carnal soul is abased! Alas for that one whose recalcitrance destroys (him)!
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فرقت صدر جهان در جان او ** پاره پاره کرده بود ارکان او 3795
- Separation from the Sadr-i Jahán had shattered (the Wakíl’s) foundations to pieces in his soul.
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گفت بر خیزم هم‌آنجا واروم ** کافر ار گشتم دگر ره بگروم
- He said, “I will rise up and go back thither: if I have become an infidel, I will believe once more.
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واروم آنجا بیفتم پیش او ** پیش آن صدر نکواندیش او
- I will go back thither and fall before him-before its (Bukhárá’s) kindly-thinking Sadr (Prince).
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گویم افکندم به پیشت جان خویش ** زنده کن یا سر ببر ما را چو میش
- I will say, ‘I throw myself before thee: revive (me) or cut off my head, like a sheep!
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کشته و مرده به پیشت ای قمر ** به که شاه زندگان جای دگر
- ‘Tis better to be slain and dead before thee, O Moon, that to be the king of the living in another place.
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آزمودم من هزاران بار بیش ** بی تو شیرین می‌نبینم عیش خویش 3800
- I have put it to the test more than a thousand times: I don not deem my life sweet without thee.
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غن لی یا منیتی لحن النشور ** ابرکی یا ناقتی تم السرور
- Sing to me, O object of my desire, the melody of resurrection! Kneel, O my she-camel! The joy is complete.