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قسم دیگر با خران ملحق شدند ** خشم محض و شهوت مطلق شدند
- The second sort have attained unto (the nature of) asses: they have become pure anger and absolute lust.
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وصف جبریلی دریشان بود رفت ** تنگ بود آن خانه و آن وصف زفت 1510
- The qualities of Gabriel were in them and departed: that house was (too) narrow, and those qualities (too) grand.
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مرده گردد شخص کو بی‌جان شود ** خر شود چون جان او بی‌آن شود
- The person who is deprived of (the vital) spirit becomes dead: when his spirit is deprived of those (angelic qualities), he becomes an ass,
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زانک جانی کان ندارد هست پست ** این سخن حقست و صوفی گفته است
- Because the spirit that hath not those (qualities) is vile: this word is true, and the (perfect) Súfí has said (it).
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او ز حیوانها فزون‌تر جان کند ** در جهان باریک کاریها کند
- He (the man of animal nature) suffers more anxiety than the beasts, (for) he practises subtle arts in the world.
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مکر و تلبیسی که او داند تنید ** آن ز حیوان دیگر ناید پدید
- The cunning and imposture which he knows how to spin— that (cunning) is not produced by any other animal.
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جامه‌های زرکشی را بافتن ** درها از قعر دریا یافتن 1515
- To weave gold-embroidered robes, to win pearls from the bottom of the sea,
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خرده‌کاریهای علم هندسه ** یا نجوم و علم طب و فلسفه
- The fine artifices of geometry or astronomy, and the science of medicine and philosophy—
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که تعلق با همین دنیاستش ** ره به هفتم آسمان بر نیستش
- Which are connected only with this world and have no way (of mounting) up to the Seventh Heaven—
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این همه علم بنای آخرست ** که عماد بود گاو و اشترست
- All this is the science of building the (worldly) stable which is the pillar (basis) of the existence of (persons like) the ox and the camel.