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چه خبر داری ز ختم عمر او ** تا بگردانی ازو یک‌باره رو
- What knowledge have you of the close of his life that you should once (and for all) avert your face from him?
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بعد از ان ترسا در آمد در کلام ** که مسیحم رو نمود اندر منام
- Afterwards the Christian began to speak, saying, “The Messiah appeared to me in my dream.
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من شدم با او به چارم آسمان ** مرکز و مثوای خورشید جهان
- I went with him to the Fourth Heaven, (which is) the centre and abode of the sun of this world.
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خود عجب‌های قلاع آسمان ** نسبتش نبود به آیات جهان 2455
- Verily, the marvels of the citadels of Heaven have no relation (cannot be compared) to the wonders of the (lower) world.
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هر کسی دانند ای فخر البنین ** که فزون باشد فن چرخ از زمین
- Every one knows, O pride of the sons (of Adam), that the artifice of the celestial sphere exceeds (that of) the earth.”
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حکایت اشتر و گاو و قج که در راه بند گیاه یافتند هر یکی می‌گفت من خورم
- Story of the camel and the ox and the ram who found a bunch of grass on the road, and each said, “I will eat it.”
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اشتر و گاو و قجی در پیش راه ** یافتند اندر روش بندی گیاه
- Whilst a camel, ox, and ram were going along, they found a bunch of grass in front of (them on) the road.
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گفت قج بخش ار کنیم این را یقین ** هیچ کس از ما نگردد سیر ازین
- The ram said, “If we divide this, certainly none of us will get his fill of it;
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لیک عمر هرکه باشد بیشتر ** این علف اوراست اولی گو بخور
- But whichever of us has lived longest has the best right to this fodder: let him eat;
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که اکابر را مقدم داشتن ** آمدست از مصطفی اندر سنن 2460
- For (the injunction) to give the foremost place to the seniors has come from Mustafá (Mohammed) among the practices observed by him,
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گرچه پیران را درین دور لام ** در دو موضع پیش می‌دارند عام
- Although, at this time when vile men hold sway, the vulgar put forward the elders on two occasions (only),