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وآن دگر که برد مروارید خرد ** وآن دگر که سنگ‌ریزه و شبه برد
- And (also) the other who got the small pearls, and the other who got (only) pebbles and worthless shells.
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هکذی یبلوهم بالساهره ** فتنة ذات افتضاح قاهره 335
- Even thus in the Sáhira (place of Judgement) a shameful overwhelming tribulation will afflict them (the followers of phantasy).
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هم‌چنین هر قوم چون پروانگان ** گرد شمعی پرزنان اندر جهان
- Similarly, every class of people in the world are fluttering like moths round a candle.
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خویشتن بر آتشی برمی‌زنند ** گرد شمع خود طوافی می‌کنند
- They attach themselves to a fire and circle round their own candle
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بر امید آتش موسی بخت ** کز لهیبش سبزتر گردد درخت
- In the hope of (gaining) the blessed fire of Moses, by the flame whereof the tree is made more green (flourishing).
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فضل آن آتش شنیده هر رمه ** هر شرر را آن گمان برده همه
- Every troop (of them) has heard of the excellence of that fire, and all imagine that any spark is that (same fire).
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چون برآید صبحدم نور خلود ** وا نماید هر یکی چه شمع بود 340
- When the Light of Everlastingness rises at dawn, each (candle) reveals what (manner of) candle it was.
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هر کرا پر سوخت زان شمع ظفر ** بدهدش آن شمع خوش هشتاد پر
- Whosoever's wings were burnt by the candle of victory, that goodly candle bestows on him eighty wings;
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جوق پروانه‌ی دو دیده دوخته ** مانده زیر شمع بد پر سوخته
- (But) beneath the bad candle many a moth, whose eyes were sealed, is left (lying) with burnt wings,
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می‌طپد اندر پشیمانی و سوز ** می‌کند آه از هوای چشم‌دوز
- Quivering in sorrow and anguish, lamenting the vain desire that seals the eyes.