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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.”
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تو ز بیم بانگ آن دیو لعین ** وا گریزی در ضلالت از یقین
- From fear of the outcry of that accursed Devil you flee away from certain truth into error,
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که هلا فردا و پس فردا مراست ** راه دین پویم که مهلت پیش ماست 4330
- Saying, “Ho, to-morrow is mine and after to-morrow: I will run in the Way of religion, I have (plenty of) time.”
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مرگ بینی باز کو از چپ و راست ** می‌کشد همسایه را تا بانگ خاست
- Then again you see Death killing your neighbours on left and right, so that the cry (of lamentation) is raised.