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چونک باران جست آن روضه‌ی بهشت ** چون نجوید آب شوره‌خاک زشت
- Since that Garden of Paradise sought rain, how should not the foul briny soil seek water?
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ای اخی دست از دعا کردن مدار ** با اجابت یا رد اویت چه کار
- O comrade, do not refrain from invoking (God): what business do you have with His acceptance or rejection (of your prayer)?
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نان که سد و مانع این آب بود ** دست از آن نان می‌بباید شست زود 2345
- Since bread (worldliness) was the barrier and obstacle to this water (tears), you must quickly wash your hands of that bread.
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خویش را موزون و چست و سخته کن ** ز آب دیده نان خود را پخته کن
- Make yourself harmonious and congruous and balanced: let your bread be baked well with (burning) tears.
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آواز دادن هاتف مر طالب گنج را و اعلام کردن از حقیقت اسرار آن
- How the Voice from heaven called to the seeker of the treasure and acquainted him with the truth of the mysteries thereof.
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اندرین بود او که الهام آمدش ** کشف شد این مشکلات از ایزدش
- He was (engaged) in this (prayer) when inspiration came to him and these difficulties were solved for him by God,
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کو بگفتت در کمان تیری بنه ** کی بگفتندت که اندر کش تو زه
- Saying, “It (the Divine intimation) told you to put an arrow to the bow, (but) when were you told to pull the bowstring (hard)?
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او نگفتت که کمان را سخت‌کش ** در کمان نه گفت او نه پر کنش
- It did not tell you to draw the bow hard: it bade you put (the arrow) to the bow, not ‘shoot with your full strength.’
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از فضولی تو کمان افراشتی ** صنعت قواسیی بر داشتی 2350
- You, from (motives of) vanity, raised the bow aloft and brought to a high pitch the art of archery.
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ترک این سخته کمانی رو بگو ** در کمان نه تیر و پریدن مجو
- Go, renounce this skill in drawing the strongbow: put the arrow to the bow and do not seek to draw to the full extent (of your power).
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چون بیفتد بر کن آنجا می‌طلب ** زور بگذار و بزاری جو ذهب
- When it (the arrow) falls, dig up the spot and search: abandon (trust in) strength and seek the gold by means of piteous supplication.”