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هر کرا مشک نصیحت سود نیست ** لا جرم با بوی بد خو کردنیست 295
- Any one to whom the musk, admonition, is of no use must necessarily make himself familiar with the bad smell.
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مشرکان را زان نجس خواندست حق ** کاندرون پشک زادند از سبق
- God has called the polytheists najas (uncleanness)’ for the reason that they were born in dung from of old.
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کرم کو زادست در سرگین ابد ** می‌نگرداند به عنبر خوی خود
- The worm that has been born in dung will nevermore change its evil nature by means of ambergris.
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چون نزد بر وی نثار رش نور ** او همه جسمست بی‌دل چون قشور
- Since the largesse of sprinkled light did not strike upon him (the wicked man), he is wholly body, without heart (spirit), like (empty) husks.
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ور ز رش نور حق قسمیش داد ** هم‌چو رسم مصر سرگین مرغ‌زاد
- And if God gave him a portion of the sprinkled light, the dung hatched a bird, as is the custom in Egypt— so
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لیک نه مرغ خسیس خانگی ** بلک مرغ دانش و فرزانگی 300
- But not the cheap domestic fowl; nay, but the bird of know ledge and wisdom.
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تو بدان مانی کز آن نوری تهی ** زآنک بینی بر پلیدی می‌نهی
- “Thou resemblest that (wicked man) for thou art devoid of that light, inasmuch as thou art putting thy nose to filth.
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از فراقت زرد شد رخسار و رو ** برگ زردی میوه‌ی ناپخته تو
- Because of being parted (from me) thy cheeks and face have become yellow (pale): thou art (a tree with) yellow leaves and unripened fruit,
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دیگ ز آتش شد سیاه و دودفام ** گوشت از سختی چنین ماندست خام
- The pot was blackened by the fire and became like smoke in colour, (but) the meat, on account of (its) hardness, has remained so raw as this!
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هشت سالت جوش دادم در فراق ** کم نشد یک ذره خامیت و نفاق
- Eight years have I boiled, thee in separation (from me): thy rawness and hypocrisy have not become less by a single mote.