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گفت حاجب آخر او بنده‌ی شماست ** گر جوابش بر نویسی هم رواست
- “After all,” said the chamberlain, “he is your (Majesty’s) slave: if you write a reply to him, tis fitting.
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از شهی تو چه کم گردد اگر ** برغلام و بنده اندازی نظر 1940
- What diminution of your sovereignty will occur if you cast looks (of favour) on your slave and servant?”
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گفت این سهلست اما احمقست ** مرد احمق زشت و مردود حقست
- He (the king) said, “This is easy; but he is fool: a foolish man is foul and rejected of God.
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گرچه آمرزم گناه و زلتش ** هم کند بر من سرایت علتش
- Though I pardon his sin and fault, his disease will infect me also.
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صد کس از گرگین همه گرگین شوند ** خاصه این گر خبیث ناپسند
- From (contact with) an itchy person a whole hundred become itchy, especially (in the case of) this loathsome reprobate itch.
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گر کم عقلی مبادا گبر را ** شوم او بی‌آب دارد ابر را
- May the itch, lack of intelligence, not befall (even) the infidel His (the fool’s) ill-starredness keeps the cloud rainless.
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نم نبارد ابر از شومی او ** شهر شد ویرانه از بومی او 1945
- On account of his ill-starredness the cloud sheds no moisture: by his owlishness the city is made a desert.
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از گر آن احمقان طوفان نوح ** کرد ویران عالمی را در فضوح
- Because of the itch of those foolish ones the Flood of Noah devastated a whole world (of people) in disgrace.
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گفت پیغامبر که احمق هر که هست ** او عدو ماست و غول ره‌زنست
- The Prophet said, ‘Whosoever is foolish, he is our enemy and a ghoul who waylays (the traveller).
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هر که او عاقل بود از جان ماست ** روح او و ریح او ریحان ماست
- Whoso is intelligent, he is (dear to us as) our soul :his breeze and wind is our sweet basil.’