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هیچ وهمی بی‌حقیقت کی بود ** هیچ قلبی بی‌صحیحی کی رود
- How should there be any imagination without reality? How should any false coin pass (into circulation) without a genuine one?
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کی دروغی قیمت آرد بی ز راست ** در دو عالم هر دروغ از راست خاست 2220
- How should a lie fetch a price (have value) without truth? Every lie in both worlds has arisen from truth.
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راست را دید او رواجی و فروغ ** بر امید آن روان کرد او دروغ
- He (the liar) saw the currency and prestige enjoyed by truth: he set going (circulated) the lie in hope of (its enjoying) the same.
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ای دروغی که ز صدقت این نواست ** شکر نعمت گو مکن انکار راست
- O (incarnate) lie, whose fortune is (derived) from veracity, give thanks for the bounty and do not deny the truth!
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از مفلسف گویم و سودای او ** یا ز کشتیها و دریاهای او
- Shall I speak of the philosopher and his mad fancy, or of His (God's) ships (arks) and seas (floods)?
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بل ز کشتیهاش کان پند دلست ** گویم از کل جزو در کل داخلست
- Nay, (I will speak) of His arks, which are the spiritual counsel (given by the saints); I will speak of the whole: the part is included in the whole.
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هر ولی را نوح و کشتیبان شناس ** صحبت این خلق را طوفان شناس 2225
- Know every saint to be a Noah and captain of the Ark; know companionship with these (worldly) people to be the Flood.
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کم گریز از شیر و اژدرهای نر ** ز آشنایان و ز خویشان کن حذر
- Do not flee from lions and fierce dragons, (but) beware of friends and kinsmen.
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در تلاقی روزگارت می‌برند ** یادهاشان غایبی‌ات می‌چرند
- They waste your time (when you are) face to face (with them), and your recollections of them devour (the time of) your absence (from them).
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چون خر تشنه خیال هر یکی ** از قف تن فکر را شربت‌مکی
- Like a thirsty ass, the image of each one (in your phantasy) is licking up the sherbet of (spiritual) thought from the flagon of the body.