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عاقبت زینها بخواهی ماندن ** هین کرا خواهی در آن دم خواندن
- At the last you will be left without (all) these things: hark, unto whom will you call then?
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این دم او را خوان و باقی را بمان ** تا تو باشی وارث ملک جهان
- Call unto Him now, and leave (all) the rest, that you may inherit the kingdom of the world.
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چون یفر المرء آید من اخیه ** یهرب المولود یوما من ابیه 1500
- When comes (the Day on which) a man shall flee from his brother and on such a Day the son will flee from his father,
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زان شود هر دوست آن ساعت عدو ** که بت تو بود و از ره مانع او
- In that hour every friend will become your foe, because (in the world) he was your idol and one who hindered (you) from (following) the (right) Way.
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روی از نقاش رو می‌تافتی ** چون ز نقشی انس دل می‌یافتی
- You were averting your face from the Painter of the face, since you were gaining heart's delight from a (mere) picture.
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این دم ار یارانت با تو ضد شوند ** وز تو برگردند و در خصمی روند
- If at this (present) time your friends become hostile to you and turn aside from you and quarrel (with you),
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هین بگو نک روز من پیروز شد ** آنچ فردا خواست شد امروز شد
- Take heed and say, “Lo, my fortune is triumphant: that which would have happened to-morrow (at the Last Judgement) has happened to-day.
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ضد من گشتند اهل این سرا ** تا قیامت عین شد پیشین مرا 1505
- The people of this caravanseray (the world) have become my enemies, in order that the Resurrection might be made clearly visible to me beforehand,
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پیش از آنک روزگار خود برم ** عمر با ایشان به پایان آورم
- Ere I should lose my time and associate with them to the end of my life.
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کاله‌ی معیوب بخریده بدم ** شکر کز عیبش بگه واقف شدم
- I had bought defective goods: thanks (to God) that I have become aware of their defectiveness in time,