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کل توی و جملگان اجزای تو ** بر گشا که هست پاشان پای تو 35
- Thou art all, and they all are parts of thee: open (the prison), for their feet are thy feet.
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از تو عالم روح زاری می‌شود ** پشت صد لشکر سواری می‌شود
- By thee the (whole) world is made a place abounding in spirit: a single cavalier becomes the support of a hundred armies.
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زانک این تن شد مقام چار خو ** نامشان شد چار مرغ فتنه‌جو
- Inasmuch as this body is the abode (nest) of (these) four dispositions, they are named the four mischief-seeking birds.
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خلق را گر زندگی خواهی ابد ** سر ببر زین چار مرغ شوم بد
- If thou wish the people to have everlasting life, cut off the heads of these four foul and evil birds,
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بازشان زنده کن از نوعی دگر ** که نباشد بعد از آن زیشان ضرر
- (And then) revive them again in another sort, so that afterwards no harm will be done by them.
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چار مرغ معنوی راه‌زن ** کرده‌اند اندر دل خلقان وطن 40
- The four immaterial birds which infest the Way have made their home in the hearts of the people.
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چون امیر جمله دلهای سوی ** اندرین دور ای خلیفه‌ی حق توی
- Since in this epoch thou, O Vicegerent of God, art the commander of all righteous hearts,
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سر ببر این چار مرغ زنده را ** سر مدی کن خلق ناپاینده را
- Cut off the heads of these four live birds and make everlasting the creatures that are not enduring for ever.
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بط و طاوسست و زاغست و خروس ** این مثال چار خلق اندر نفوس
- There is the duck and the peacock and the crow and the cock: these are a parable of the four (evil) dispositions in (human) souls.
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بط حرصست و خروس آن شهوتست ** جاه چون طاوس و زاغ امنیتست
- The duck is greed, and the cock is lust; eminence is like the peacock, and the crow is (worldly) desire.