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گوش را اکنون ز غفلت پاک کن ** استماع هجر آن غمناک کن
- Now purge your ear of forgetfulness and listen to the separation (forlorn plight) of the sorrowful one.
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آن زکاتی دان که غمگین را دهی ** گوش را چون پیش دستانش نهی
- Know that when you set your ear to his tale, that is the alms which you give to the sad;
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بشنوی غمهای رنجوران دل ** فاقه‌ی جان شریف از آب و گل
- (For) you will hear the sorrows of the heart-sick—the starvation of the noble spirit by the water and clay (of the body).
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خانه‌ی پر دود دارد پر فنی ** مر ورا بگشا ز اصغا روزنی 485
- (Though it is) one filled with knowledge, it hath a house filled with smoke: open a window for it by listening.
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گوش تو او را چو راه دم شود ** دود تلخ از خانه‌ی او کم شود
- When your ear becomes a way of breath (relief) for it, the bitter smoke will decrease (and disappear) from its house.
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غمگساری کن تو با ما ای روی ** گر به سوی رب اعلی می‌روی
- Show sympathy with us, O well-watered (prosperous) one, if you are faring to wards the most high Lord.
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این تردد حبس و زندانی بود ** که بنگذارد که جان سویی رود
- This vacillation is a prison and gaol that will not let the soul go in any direction.
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این بدین سو آن بدان سو می‌کشد ** هر یکی گویا منم راه رشد
- This (motive) draws (you) in one direction, and that (motive) in another, each (motive) saying, “I am the right way.”
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این تردد عقبه‌ی راه حقست ** ای خنک آن را که پایش مطلقست 490
- This vacillation is a precipice on the Way to God: oh, blest is he whose feet are loosed (from its bonds).
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بی‌تردد می‌رود در راه راست ** ره نمی‌دانی بجو گامش کجاست
- He fares on the right way without vacillation: (if) you do not know the way, seek (to find) where his footprints are.