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نقش رستم که آن به حمامی بود ** قرن حمله فکر هر خامی بود
- The antagonist (conceived) in the mind of every raw (weakling) is the picture of Rustam that may be (found) in a bath-house.
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این خیال سمع چون مبصر شود ** حیز چه بود رستمی مضطر شود
- When this fancy (idea) derived from hearing becomes (actually) visible, what of the poltroon? (Even) a Rustam (hero) is compelled (to submit).
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جهد کن کز گوش در چشمت رود ** آنچ که آن باطل بدست آن حق شود 3920
- Endeavour that it (the fancy) may pass from thine ear into thine eye, and that what has (hitherto) been unreal may become real.
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زان سپس گوشت شود هم طبع چشم ** گوهری گردد دو گوش هم‌چو یشم
- After that, thine ear will become connatural with thine eye: the two ears, (gross) as wool, will become of pure substance (and subtle);
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بلک جمله تن چو آیینه شود ** جمله چشم و گوهر سینه شود
- Nay, thy whole body will become like a mirror: it will become all eye and pure spiritual substance.
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گوش انگیزد خیال و آن خیال ** هست دلاله‌ی وصال آن جمال
- The ear rouses a fancy, and that fancy is the go-between (that leads) to union with that Beauty.
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جهد کن تا این خیال افزون شود ** تا دلاله رهبر مجنون شود
- Endeavour that this fancy may increase, so that the go-between may become a guide for Majnún.
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آن خلیفه گول هم یک چند نیز ** ریش گاوی کرد خوش با آن کنیز 3925
- That foolish Caliph, too, was mightily infatuated for awhile with that girl.
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ملک را تو ملک غرب و شرق گیر ** چون نمی‌ماند تو آن را برق گیر
- Suppose the (monarch's) empire is the empire of the West and the East: since it will not remain, deem it to be (as fleeting as) a lightning-flash.
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مملکت کان می‌نماند جاودان ** ای دلت خفته تو آن را خواب دان
- O thou whose heart is slumbering (heedless), know that the kingdom that does not remain unto everlasting is (but) a dream.