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عشق را در پیچش خود یار نیست ** محرمش در ده یکی دیار نیست
- Love hath none to help him in his torment: there is not in the village one inhabitant familiar with him.
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نیست از عاشق کسی دیوانه‌تر ** عقل از سودای او کورست و کر
- None is more mad than the lover, (yet) Reason is blind and deaf to his melancholia,
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زآنک این دیوانگی عام نیست ** طب را ارشاد این احکام نیست 1980
- Because this is no common madness: in these cases Medicine cannot give right guidance.
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گر طبیبی را رسد زین گون جنون ** دفتر طب را فرو شوید به خون
- If frenzy of this kind overtake a physician, he will wash out (obliterate) the book of Medicine with (tears of) blood.
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طب جمله‌ی عقلها منقوش اوست ** روی جمله دلبران روپوش اوست
- The Medicine of all intellects is (but) a picture of him (Love); the faces of all sweethearts are (but) a veil of him.
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روی در روی خود آر ای عشق‌کیش ** نیست ای مفتون ترا جز خویش خویش
- O votary of Love, turn thy face towards thine own face: thou hast no kinsman but thyself, O distraught one.
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قبله از دل ساخت آمد در دعا ** لیس للانسان الا ما سعی
- He (the fakir) made a qibla of his heart and began to pray: man hath naught but that for which he laboureth.
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پیش از آن کو پاسخی بشنیده بود ** سالها اندر دعا پیچیده بود 1985
- Ere he had heard any answer (to his prayer) he had (already) been engaged in praying for (many) years.
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بی‌اجابت بر دعاها می‌تنید ** از کرم لبیک پنهان می‌شنید
- He was always praying intently without (receiving) any (overt) response, (but) he was hearing Labbayka in secret from the (Divine) grace.
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چونک بی‌دف رقص می‌کرد آن علیل ** ز اعتماد جود خلاق جلیل
- Since that sickly man was always dancing without the tambourine, in reliance upon the bounty of the Almighty Creator,