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پی‌رو پیغمبرانی ره سپر ** طعنه‌ی خلقان همه بادی شمر
- (If) you are a follower of the prophets, tread the Way: deem all the railing of (human) creatures to be a (vain and empty) wind.
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آن خداوندان که ره طی کرده‌اند ** گوش فا بانگ سگان کی کرده‌اند 4320
- When have the Masters who have traversed the Way lent ear to the clamour of curs?
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بقیه‌ی ذکر آن مهمان مسجد مهمان‌کش
- The remainder of the story of the guest in the guest-killing mosque.
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باز گو کان پاک‌باز شیرمرد ** اندر آن مسجد چه بنمودش چه کرد
- Relate what appeared in the mosque to that self-sacrificing valiant man, and what he did.
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خفت در مسجد خود او را خواب کو ** مرد غرقه گشته چون خسپد بجو
- He slept in the mosque, (but) where (how) in sooth had he sleep? How should a submerged man sleep in the river?
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خواب مرغ و ماهیان باشد همی ** عاشقان را زیر غرقاب غمی
- Always, for the lovers (of God) beneath the flood of a (great) passion, there is (only) the sleep of birds and fishes.
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نیمشب آواز با هولی رسید ** کایم آیم بر سرت ای مستفید
- At midnight came an awful voice, “I come, I come upon thee, O thou that seekest advantage.”
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پنج کرت این چنین آواز سخت ** می‌رسید و دل همی‌شد لخت‌لخت 4325
- Five times came such a terrible voice, and his heart was being rent piecemeal.
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تفسیر آیت واجلب علیهم بخیلک و رجلک
- Commentary on the verse (of the Qur’án): “And raise the battle-cry against them with thy horsemen and men on foot.”
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تو چو عزم دین کنی با اجتهاد ** دیو بانگت بر زند اندر نهاد
- When you earnestly resolve to be religious, the Devil in your nature cries out at you,
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که مرو زان سو بیندیش ای غوی ** که اسیر رنج و درویشی شوی
- “Go not in that direction! Bethink you, O misguided one; for you will become captive to distress and poverty.
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بی‌نوا گردی ز یاران وابری ** خوار گردی و پشیمانی خوری
- You will become destitute, you will be cut off from friends, you will be despised, you will feel sorry.”