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یار بد چون رست در تو مهر او ** هین ازو بگریز و کم کن گفت وگو
- When love for a bad companion has grown in you, beware, flee from him and do not converse (with him).
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برکن از بیخش که گر سر بر زند ** مر ترا و مسجدت را بر کند 1385
- Tear it up by the root, for if it shoot up its head it wilt demolish (both) you and your mosque.
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عاشقا خروب تو آمد کژی ** هم‌چو طفلان سوی کژ چون می‌غژی
- O lover, your carob is falseness: why do you creep, like children, towards the false?
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خویش مجرم دان و مجرم گو مترس ** تا ندزدد از تو آن استاد درس
- Know yourself a sinner and calf yourself a sinner—do not be afraid—so that that Master may not steal (secretly take away) the lesson from you.
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چون بگویی جاهلم تعلیم ده ** این چنین انصاف از ناموس به
- When you say, “I am ignorant; give (me) instruction,” such fair-dealing is better than (a false) reputation.
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از پدر آموز ای روشن‌جبین ** ربنا گفت و ظلمنا پیش ازین
- Learn from your father (Adam), O clear-browed man: he said heretofore, “O our Lord” and “We have done wrong.”
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نه بهانه کرد و نه تزویر ساخت ** نه لوای مکر و حیلت بر فراخت 1390
- He made no excuse, nor did he invent falsehood nor lift up the banner of deceit and evasion.
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باز آن ابلیس بحث آغاز کرد ** که بدم من سرخ رو کردیم زرد
- That Iblís, on the other hand, began to dispute, saying, “I was red-faced (honourable): Thou hast made me yellow (disgraced).
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رنگ رنگ تست صباغم توی ** اصل جرم و آفت و داغم توی
- The colour is Thy colour: Thou art my dyer, Thou art the origin of my sin and bane and brand.”
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هین بخوان رب بما اغویتنی ** تا نگردی جبری و کژ کم تنی
- Beware! Recite (the text) because Thou hast seduced me, in order that you may not become a necessitarian and may not weave untruth.