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صد هزاران ز انبیای حق‌پرست ** خود بهر قرنی سیاستها بدست 90
- Hundreds of thousands of prophets who worshipped God— truly there have been chastisements (inflicted by them) in every generation.
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گر بگویم وین بیان افزون شود ** خود جگر چه بود که کهها خون شود
- If I should tell on and if this narration should increase (in length), not only (men's) hearts but the (very) mountains would bleed.
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خون شود کهها و باز آن بفسرد ** تو نبینی خون شدن کوری و رد
- The mountains bleed and again become solid, (but) you do not see them bleed: you are blind and reprobate.
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طرفه کوری دوربین تیزچشم ** لیک از اشتر نبیند غیر پشم
- A marvellous blind man, (who is) far-sighted and keen-eyed, but sees naught of the camel except the hair!
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مو بمو بیند ز صرفه حرص انس ** رقص بی مقصود دارد همچو خرس
- Man, from the parsimony of greed, inspects hair by hair: like a bear, he keeps dancing to no purpose.
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رقص آنجا کن که خود را بشکنی ** پنبه را از ریش شهوت بر کنی 95
- Dance (only) where you break (mortify) yourself and (when you) tear away the cotton from the sore of lust.
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رقص و جولان بر سر میدان کنند ** رقص اندر خون خود مردان کنند
- (Holy) men dance and wheel on the (spiritual) battle-field: they dance in their own blood.
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چون رهند از دست خود دستی زنند ** چون جهند از نقص خود رقصی کنند
- When they are freed from the hand (dominion) of self, they clap a hand; when they escape from their own imperfection, they make a dance.
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مطربانشان از درون دف می‌زنند ** بحرها در شورشان کف می‌زنند
- From within them musicians strike the tambourine; at their ecstasy the seas burst into foam.
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تو نبینی لیک بهر گوششان ** برگها بر شاخها هم کف‌زنان
- You see it not, but for their ears the leaves too on the boughs are clapping hands.