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تو ز گفتار تعالوا کم مکن ** کیمیای بس شگرفست این سخن 2025
- Do not make little of the (Divine) Word ta‘álaw (come ye): this Word is an exceedingly great elixir.
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گر مسی گردد ز گفتارت نفیر ** کیمیا را هیچ از وی وام گیر
- If a copper (a base person) turn away in repugnance from your saying (this Word), by no means withhold the elixir from him.
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این زمان گر بست نفس ساحرش ** گفت تو سودش کند در آخرش
- If his magician-like soul has bound (cast a spell upon) him at the present time, (yet) your saying will profit him in his latter end.
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قل تعالوا قل تعالوا ای غلام ** هین که ان الله یدعوا للسلام
- O slave (of God), say, Come ye, say, Come ye: take heed, for verily God inviteth unto the (Abode of) Peace.
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خواجه باز آ از منی و از سری ** سروری جو کم طلب کن سروری
- Then come back, sire, from egoism and headship: seek a leader, do not desire leadership.
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اعتراض کردن معترضی بر رسول علیه‌السلام بر امیر کردن آن هذیلی
- How an objector objected to the Prophet's—on whom be peace— appointing the man of Hudhayl to be commander.
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چون پیمبر سروری کرد از هذیل ** از برای لشکر منصور خیل 2030
- When the Prophet appointed a leader from (the tribe of) Hudhayl for the army whose troops were Divinely aided,
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بوالفضولی از حسد طاقت نداشت ** اعتراض و لانسلم بر فراشت
- An insolent fellow, through envy, could not endure (to keep silence): he raised objection and opposition.
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خلق را بنگر که چون ظلمانی‌اند ** در متاع فانیی چون فانی‌اند
- Behold humankind, how dark (unenlightened) they are, and how they are perishing in (desire for) a perishable piece of goods.
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از تکبر جمله اندر تفرقه ** مرده از جان زنده‌اند از مخرقه
- On account of pride they all are in separation (from God), dead to the spirit, living in deception.
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این عجب که جان به زندان اندرست ** وانگهی مفتاح زندانش به دست
- ’Tis wonderful that the spirit is in prison, and then (all that time) the key of the prison is in its hand!