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کانچ پنهان می‌کند پیدایش کن ** سوخت ما را ای خدا رسواش کن
- Crying, “Display that which he is hiding! He has consumed me (with anguish): O God, expose him!”
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جمله اجزای تنش خصم ویند ** کز بهاری لافد ایشان در دیند 750
- All the members of his body are his adversaries, for he prates of spring (while) they are in December.
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لاف وا داد کرمها می‌کند ** شاخ رحمت را ز بن بر می‌کند
- Vain talk repels acts of kindness and tears off the bough of pity from the trunk of the tree.
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راستی پیش آر یا خاموش کن ** وانگهان رحمت ببین و نوش کن
- Bring forward (practise) honesty, or else be silent, and then behold pity and enjoy it.
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آن شکم خصم سبال او شده ** دست پنهان در دعا اندر زده
- That belly became the adversary of his moustache and secretly had recourse to prayer,
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کای خدا رسوا کن این لاف لام ** تا بجنبد سوی ما رحم کرام
- Crying, “O God, expose this idle brag of the base, in order that the pity of the noble may be moved towards me.”
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مستجاب آمد دعای آن شکم ** شورش حاجت بزد بیرون علم 755
- The belly's prayer was answered: the ardency of need put out a flag.
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گفت حق گر فاسقی و اهل صنم ** چون مرا خوانی اجابتها کنم
- God hath said, “Though thou be a profligate and idolater, I will answer when thou callest Me.”
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تو دعا را سخت گیر و می‌شخول ** عاقبت برهاندت از دست غول
- Do thou cleave fast unto prayer and ever cry out: in the end it will deliver thee from the hands of the ghoul.
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چون شکم خود را به حضرت در سپرد ** گربه آمد پوست آن دنبه ببرد
- When the belly committed itself to God, the cat came and carried off the skin of that sheep's tail.