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بر تو گر ده‌گون موکل آمدی ** عقل بایستی کز ایشان کم زدی
- Had there been ten sorts of custodians over thee, intelligence would have been needed in order that thou might'st become quit of them.
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چون موکل نیست بر تو هیچ‌کس ** از چه بسته گشت بر تو پیش و پس
- Since no one is a custodian over thee, wherefore have the future and the past become sealed to thee?”
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عشق پنهان کرده بود او را اسیر ** آن موکل را نمی‌دید آن نذیر 3820
- Secret love had made him (the Wakíl) captive: the warner (his critic) was not seeing that custodian.
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هر موکل را موکل مختفیست ** ورنه او در بند سگ طبعی ز چیست
- Every custodian's custodian is hidden; else, wherefore is he (the wicked custodian) in thrall to (his) currish nature?
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خشم شاه عشق بر جانش نشست ** بر عوانی و سیه‌روییش بست
- The anger of Love, the King, settled upon his soul and chained him to the (base) office of a myrmidon and to ignominy.
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می‌زند او را که هین او رابزن ** زان عوانان نهان افغان من
- It (anger) is striking him and saying, “Hark, strike him (thy captive)!” Woe is me on account of those hidden myrmidons.
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هرکه بینی در زیانی می‌رود ** گرچه تنها با عوانی می‌رود
- Whomsoever you see going in a (path of) detriment, he, though (apparently) alone, is going along with a (hidden) myrmidon.
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گر ازو واقف بدی افغان زدی ** پیش آن سلطان سلطانان شدی 3825
- If he were aware of him, he would cry out in distress and go into the presence of the King of kings,
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ریختی بر سر به پیش شاه خاک ** تا امان دیدی ز دیو سهمناک
- And scatter earth on his head before the King, that he might find security from the frightful Devil.
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میر دیدی خویش را ای کم ز مور ** زان ندیدی آن موکل را تو کور
- (But) you, O less than an ant, deemed yourself a prince: hence, blind (as you are), you did not see that custodian.