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احسن التقویم از عرش او فزون ** احسن التقویم از فکرت برون
- (That spirit created) in the best proportion surpasses the empyrean: (that spirit created) in the best proportion is beyond (the range of) thought.
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گر بگویم قیمت این ممتنع ** من بسوزم هم بسوزد مستمع
- If I declare the value of this inaccessible (pearl), I shall be consumed, and the hearer too will be consumed.
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لب ببند اینجا و خر این سو مران ** رفت این صدیق سوی آن خران
- At this point close thy lips and proceed no further. This Siddíq went to those asses (the Jews).
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حلقه در زد چو در را بر گشود ** رفت بی‌خود در سرای آن جهود
- He knocked the door-ring, and when the Jew opened the door he (the Siddíq) went into his house, beside himself (with indignation).
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بی‌خود و سرمست و پر آتش نشست ** از دهانش بس کلام تلخ جست 1010
- He sat down, beside himself and furious and full of fire: from his mouth leaped many bitter words—
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کین ولی الله را چون می‌زنی ** این چه حقدست ای عدو روشنی
- “Why art thou beating this friend of God? What hatred is this, O enemy of the Light?
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گر ترا صدقیست اندر دین خود ** ظلم بر صادق دلت چون می‌دهد
- If thou art steadfast in thy own religion, how is thy heart consenting to maltreat him who is steadfast (in his religion)?
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ای تو در دین جهودی ماده‌ای ** کین گمان داری تو بر شه‌زاده‌ای
- O thou effeminate in Judaism, who dost impute this (same effeminacy) to a (spiritual) prince!
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در همه ز آیینه‌ی کژساز خود ** منگر ای مردود نفرین ابد
- Do not view all (things) in the distorting mirror of thy selfhood, O thou who art banned with an everlasting curse!”
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آنچ آن دم از لب صدیق جست ** گر بگویم گم کنی تو پای و دست 1015
- If I should tell what burst from the lips of the Siddíq at that moment, you would lose (both) foot and hand.