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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,
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پیش از آن کز دست سرمایه شدی ** عاقبت معیوب بیرون آمدی
- Ere the stock-in-trade should go out of my hands and finally come forth (be exposed) as defective.
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مال رفته عمر رفته ای نسیب ** ماه و جان داده پی کاله‌ی معیب
- My wealth was (all but) gone, my life was (all but) gone, O man of noble lineage: I had (all but) given away my wealth and life for damaged goods.
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رخت دادم زر قلبی بستدم ** شاد شادان سوی خانه می‌شدم 1510
- I sold my merchandise, I received base gold: I was going home in great jubilation.
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شکر کین زر قلب پیدا شد کنون ** پیش از آنک عمر بگذشتی فزون
- Thanks (to God) that this gold was shown to be base now, before too much of my life had passed.
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قلب ماندی تا ابد در گردنم ** حیف بودی عمر ضایع کردنم
- The base coin would have remained (as a shackle) on my neck for ever: to waste my life (thus) would have been an iniquity.