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هرکرا باشد مزاج و طبع سست ** او نخواهد هیچ کس را تن‌درست
- Whenever a man's temperament and constitution is feeble, he does not wish any one to be sound in body.
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گر نخواهی رشک ابلیسی بیا ** از در دعوی به درگاه وفا
- If you dislike (to have) the jealousy of Iblís, come (away) from the door of pretension (and advance) to the portal of loyalty.
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چون وفاات نیست باری دم مزن ** که سخن دعویست اغلب ما و من
- When thou hast not loyalty, at least do not talk (presumptuously), for words are for the most part self-assertion—‘we’ and ‘I.’
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این سخن در سینه دخل مغزهاست ** در خموشی مغز جان را صد نماست 1175
- These words, (whilst they stay) in the breast, are an income consisting of (spiritual) kernels: in silence the spiritual kernel grows a hundredfold.
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چون بیامد در زبان شد خرج مغز ** خرج کم کن تا بماند مغز نغز
- When it (the word) comes on to the tongue, the kernel is expended: refrain from expending, in order that the goodly kernel may remain (with you).
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مرد کم گوینده را فکرست زفت ** قشر گفتن چون فزون شد مغز رفت
- The man who speaks little hath strong thoughts: when the husk, namely speech, becomes excessive, the kernel goes.
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پوست افزون بود لاغر بود مغز ** پوست لاغر شد چو کامل گشت و نغز
- (When) the rind is excessive, the kernel is thin: the rind becomes thin when it (the kernel) becomes perfect and goodly.
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بنگر این هر سه ز خامی رسته را ** جوز را و لوز را و پسته را
- Look at these three (fruits) when they have passed beyond immaturity: the walnut and the almond and the pistachio.
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هر که او عصیان کند شیطان شود ** که حسود دولت نیکان شود 1180
- Whoever disobeys (God) becomes a devil, for he becomes envious of the fortune of the righteous.
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چونک در عهد خدا کردی وفا ** از کرم عهدت نگه دارد خدا
- When you have acted loyally in (keeping) your covenant with God, God will graciously keep His covenant with you.