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جهد کن تا مست و نورانی شوی ** تا حدیثت را شود نورش روی 2485
- Strive to become intoxicated and illumined, in order that his light may be (like) the rhyme-letter to your discourse.
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هر چه در دوشاب جوشیده شود ** در عقیده طعم دوشابش بود
- Whatever (fruit or vegetable) is boiled in grape-juice, the flavour of grape-juice will be (tasted) in its syrup.
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از جزر وز سیب و به وز گردگان ** لذت دوشاب یابی تو از آن
- (Whether it be syrup) of carrots or apples or quinces or walnuts, you will taste in it the delicious flavour of grape-juice.
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علم اندر نور چون فرغرده شد ** پس ز علمت نور یابد قوم لد
- When your knowledge is steeped in the light (of faith), then the contumacious folk derive light from your knowledge.
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هر چه گویی باشد آن هم نورناک ** که آسمان هرگز نبارد غیر پاک
- Whatsoever you say, too, will be luminous, for the sky never rains aught but pure (water).
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آسمان شو ابر شو باران ببار ** ناودان بارش کند نبود به کار 2490
- Become (like) the sky, become (like) the cloud and shed rain: the spout rains (too), (but) it is not at work (productively).
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آب اندر ناودان عاریتیست ** آب اندر ابر و دریا فطرتیست
- The water in the spout is borrowed; the water in the cloud and in the sea is original.
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فکر و اندیشه‌ست مثل ناودان ** وحی و مکشوفست ابر و آسمان
- Your thought and cogitation resemble the spout; inspiration and revelation are (like) the cloud and the sky.
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آب باران باغ صد رنگ آورد ** ناودان همسایه در جنگ آورد
- The rain-water produces a many-coloured garden; the spout causes your neighbour to quarrel (with you).
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خر دو سه حمله به روبه بحث کرد ** چون مقلد بد فریب او بخورد
- The ass disputed twice or thrice with the fox, (but) since he was (only) an imitator he was beguiled by him.