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دوست گیری چیزها را از اثر ** پس چرا ز آثاربخشی بی‌خبر
- You make friends with things because of the effect (which they produce): why, then, are you ignorant of Him who produces (all) effects?
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از خیالی دوست گیری خلق را ** چون نگیری شاه غرب و شرق را
- You make friends with people on the ground of a phantasy: why do not you make friends with the King of west and east?
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این سخن پایان ندارد ای قباد ** حرص ما را اندرین پایان مباد 1320
- This topic hath no end. O (spiritual) emperor, may there be no end to our desire for this (mystic knowledge)!
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رجوع به قصه‌ی رنجور
- Returning to the Story of the sick man.
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باز گرد و قصه‌ی رنجور گو ** با طبیب آگه ستارخو
- Return (from the digression) and tell the story of the sick man and the wise physician whose nature was to palliate.
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نبض او بگرفت و واقف شد ز حال ** که امید صحت او بد محال
- He felt his pulse and ascertained his state (of health): (he saw) that it was absurd to hope for his recovery.
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گفت هر چت دل بخواهد آن بکن ** تا رود از جسمت این رنج کهن
- He said, “Do whatever your heart desires, in order that this old malady may quit your body.
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هرچه خواهد خاطر تو وا مگیر ** تا نگردد صبر و پرهیزت زحیر
- Do not withhold anything that your inclination craves, lest your self-restraint and abstinence turn to gripes.
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صبر و پرهیز این مرض را دان زیان ** هرچه خواهد دل در آرش در میان 1325
- Know that self-restraint and abstinence are injurious to this disease: proffer to your heart whatever it may desire.
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این چنین رنجور را گفت ای عمو ** حق تعالی اعملوا ما شتم
- O uncle, (it was) in reference to a sick man like this (that) God most High said, ‘Do what ye will.”
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گفت رو هین خیر بادت جان عم ** من تماشای لب جو می‌روم
- He (the sick man) said, “(Now) go; look you, my dear nephew, I am going for a walk on the bank of the river.”