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ایش ابالی بالخلیفه فی‌الهوی ** استوی عندی وجودی والتوی
- What should I care about the Caliph? (Since I am) in love, my life and death are the same to me.”
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این چنین سوزان و گرم آخر مکار ** مشورت کن با یکی خاوندگار
- Prithee, do not sow with such ardour and heat: take counsel with a (spiritual) master.
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مشورت کو عقل کو سیلاب آز ** در خرابی کرد ناخنها دراز
- (But) where is counsel, where is reason, (when) the torrent of cupidity has extended its talons to destroy (them)?
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بین ایدی سد و سوی خلف سد ** پیش و پس کم بیند آن مفتون خد
- A barrier in front and a barrier behind; (but) he that is fascinated by a (lovely) cheek does not see (what is) before or behind.
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آمده در قصدجان سیل سیاه ** تا که روبه افکند شیری به چاه 3870
- The black torrent comes to take his life, so that a fox may hurl a lion into the well (of destruction).
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از چهی بنموده معدومی خیال ** تا در اندازد اسودا کالجبال
- Something (materially) non-existent causes a phantom to appear in a well, in order that it (the phantom) may cast into it lions (strong) as mountains.
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هیچ‌کس را با زنان محرم مدار ** که مثال این دو پنبه‌ست و شرار
- Do not have any one intimate with thy womenfolk, for these two (the man and the woman) may be compared to cotton and sparks of fire.
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آتشی باید بشسته ز آب حق ** هم‌چو یوسف معتصم اندر زهق
- It needs a fire quenched by God's water, one that like Joseph holds fast (to God) in (the hour of) evil temptation,
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کز زلیخای لطیف سروقد ** هم‌چو شیران خویشتن را واکشد
- To withdraw itself (bravely) as lions from a charming Zalíkhá tall and slender as a cypress.
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بازگشت از موصل و می‌شد به راه ** تا فرود آمد به بیشه و مرج‌گاه 3875
- He (the captain) turned back from Mawsil and went on his way till he encamped in a wooded meadowland.