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سحر کاهی را به صنعت که کند ** باز کوهی را چو کاهی می‌تند 4070
- Magic makes a straw a mountain by artifice; (or) again, it weaves a mountain like a straw.
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زشتها را نغز گرداند به فن ** نغزها را زشت گرداند به ظن
- It makes ugly things beautiful by means of sleight; it makes beautiful things ugly by means of (false) opinion.
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کار سحر اینست کو دم می‌زند ** هر نفس قلب حقایق می‌کند
- The work of magic is this, that it breathes (incantations) and at every breath (moment) transforms realities.
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آدمی را خر نماید ساعتی ** آدمی سازد خری را وآیتی
- At one time it shows a man in the guise of an ass, (at another time) it makes an ass (look like) a man and a notable.
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این چنین ساحر درون تست و سر ** ان فی الوسواس سحرا مستتر
- Such a magician is within you and latent: truly, there is a concealed magic in temptation (exerted by the fleshly soul);
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اندر آن عالم که هست این سحرها ** ساحران هستند جادویی‌گشا 4075
- (But) in the world in which are these magic arts, there are magicians who defeat sorcery.
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اندر آن صحرا که رست این زهر تر ** نیز روییدست تریاق ای پسر
- In the plain where this fresh (virulent) poison grew, there has also grown the antidote, O son.
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گویدت تریاق از من جو سپر ** که ز زهرم من به تو نزدیکتر
- The antidote says to you, “Seek from me a shield, for I am nearer than the poison to thee.
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گفت او سحرست و ویرانی تو ** گفت من سحرست و دفع سحر او
- Her (the fleshly soul's) words are magic and thy ruin; my words are (lawful) magic and the counter-charm to her magic.”
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مکرر کردن عاذلان پند را بر آن مهمان آن مسجد مهمان کش
- How the fault-finders repeated their advice to the guest of the guest-killing mosque.
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گفت پیغامبر که ان فی البیان ** سحرا و حق گفت آن خوش پهلوان
- The Prophet said, “Verily, there is a magic in eloquence”; and that goodly hero spake the truth.