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در تانی گوید ای عجول خام ** پایه‌پایه بر توان رفتن به بام
- With deliberation it says, “O hasty fool, (only) step by step can one mount to the roof.”
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دیگ را تدریج و استادانه جوش ** کار ناید قلیه‌ی دیوانه جوش
- Let the cooking-pot boil gradually, as a skilful (cook) does: the stew boiled in a mad hurry is of no use.
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حق نه قادر بود بر خلق فلک ** در یکی لحظه به کن بی‌هیچ شک
- Was not God able to create heaven in one moment by (the word) “Be”? Without any doubt (He was).
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پس چرا شش روز آن را درکشید ** کل یوم الف عام ای مستفید
- Why, then, O seeker of instruction, did He extend (the time) for it to six days, every day (being as long as) a thousand years?
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خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است 1215
- Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King.
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خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود
- Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,
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نه چو تو ای خام که اکنون تاختی ** طفلی و خود را تو شیخی ساختی
- Not like you, O foolish one, who have rushed forward just now: you are a child, and you have made yourself out to be an Elder.
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بر دویدی چون کدو فوق همه ** کو ترا پای جهاد و ملحمه
- You have run up, like a gourd, to the top of all, (but) where is the (spiritual) warfare and combat to sustain you?
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تکیه کردی بر درختان و جدار ** بر شدی ای اقرعک هم قرع‌وار
- You have rested on trees and walls for support: you have climbed up like a pumpkin, O little baldhead.
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اول ار شد مرکبت سرو سهی ** لیک آخر خشک و بی‌مغزی تهی 1220
- If at first you mounted on a tall cypress, yet in the end you are dry and pulpless and empty.