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بی‌هوا نهی از هوا ممکن نبود ** غازیی بر مردگان نتوان نمود
- Without (the existence of) sensuality ’tis impossible to forbid sensuality: heroism cannot be displayed against the dead.
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انفقوا گفتست پس کسپی بکن ** زانک نبود خرج بی‌دخل کهن
- He (God) hath said ‘Spend’: therefore earn something, since there can be no expenditure without an old (previously acquired) income.
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گر چه آورد انفقوا را مطلق او ** تو بخوان که اکسبوا ثم انفقوا 580
- Although He used (the word) Spend absolutely, (yet) read (it as meaning) ‘Earn, then spend.’
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هم‌چنان چون شاه فرمود اصبروا ** رغبتی باید کزان تابی تو رو
- Similarly, since the King (God) has given the command ‘Refrain yourselves,’ there must be some desire from which thou shouldst avert thy face.
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پس کلوا از بهر دام شهوتست ** بعد از آن لاتسرفوا آن عفتست
- Hence (the command) ‘Eat ye’ is for the sake of the snare (temptation) of appetite; after that (comes) ‘Do not exceed’: that is temperance.
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چونک محمول به نبود لدیه ** نیست ممکن بود محمول علیه
- When there is no ‘predicate’ (relative quality) in him (any one), the existence of the ‘subject’ (the correlative term) is impossible.
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چونک رنج صبر نبود مر ترا ** شرط نبود پس فرو ناید جزا
- When thou hast not the pain of self-restraint, there is no protasis: therefore the apodosis (recompense) does not follow.
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حبذا آن شرط و شادا آن جزا ** آن جزای دل‌نواز جان‌فزا 585
- How admirable is that protasis and how joyful is that apodosis (recompense), a recompense that charms the heart and increases the life of the spirit!
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در بیان آنک ثواب عمل عاشق از حق هم حق است
- Explaining that God (Himself) is the reward bestowed by Him for the (devotional) work of the lover.
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عاشقان را شادمانی و غم اوست ** دست‌مزد و اجرت خدمت هم اوست
- For (His) lovers He (alone) is (all their) joy and sorrow; He (alone) is their wages and hire for service.
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غیر معشوق ار تماشایی بود ** عشق نبود هرزه سودایی بود
- If there be any spectacle (object of regard for them) except the Beloved, ’tis not love: ’tis an idle passion.