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تری تن را بجویند آبها ** کای تری باز آ ز غربت سوی ما
- The waters seek the moisture of the body, saying, “O moisture, come back to us from exile.”
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گرمی تن را همی‌خواند اثیر ** که ز ناری راه اصل خویش گیر 4425
- The aether is calling the heat of the body, saying, “Thou art of fire: take the way to thy origin.”
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هست هفتاد و دو علت در بدن ** از کششهای عناصر بی رسن
- There are two-and-seventy diseases in the body, (caused) by the elements pulling without cord.
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علت آید تا بدن را بسکلد ** تا عناصر همدگر را وا هلد
- Disease comes to shatter the body, so that the elements may abandon each other.
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چار مرغ‌اند این عناصر بسته‌پا ** مرگ و رنجوری و علت پاگشا
- These elements are four birds with their legs tied (together): death and sickness and disease loose their legs.
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پایشان از همدگر چون باز کرد ** مرغ هر عنصر یقین پرواز کرد
- When it (death) has released their legs from one another, assuredly every bird-element flies away.
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جذبه‌ی این اصلها و فرعها ** هر دمی رنجی نهد در جسم ما 4430
- The pull between these originals and derivatives continually implants some pain in our bodies,
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تا که این ترکیبها را بر درد ** مرغ هر جزوی به اصل خود پرد
- In order that it may rend these coalitions asunder (and that) each part, like a bird, may fly to its home;
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حکمت حق مانع آید زین عجل ** جمعشان دارد بصحت تا اجل
- (But) Divine Providence hinders them from this hastening and keeps them together in health till the appointed term,
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گوید ای اجزا اجل مشهود نیست ** پر زدن پیش از اجلتان سود نیست
- And says, “O parts, the term is not certainly known (to you): ’tis useless for you to take wing before the term.”