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لا تکن طوع الهوی مثل الحشیش ** ان ظل العرش اولی من عریش
- Be not submissive to self-will (and yielding) like hay: in sooth the shade of the Divine Throne is better than the summer-house (of the world).
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گفت سلطان اسپ را وا پس برید ** زودتر زین مظلمه بازم خرید
- The Sultan said, “Take the horse back (to the Amír) and with all speed redeem (deliver) me from (committing) this wrong.”
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با دل خود شه نفرمود این قدر ** شیر را مفریب زین راس البقر 3505
- The King did not say in his heart, “Do not (seek to) deceive the lion so greatly by means of the head of an ox.
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پای گاو اندر میان آری ز داو ** رو ندوزد حق بر اسپی شاخ گاو
- You (the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk) drag in the ox in order to cheat (me): begone, God does not stick the horns of an ox upon a horse.”
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بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو
- This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?
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زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته
- The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,
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در میان قصرها تخریج‌ها ** از سوی این سوی آن صهریج‌ها
- (With) balconies in them and cisterns (distributing water) from this (part of the palace) to that;
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وز درونشان عالمی بی‌منتها ** در میان خرگهی چندین فضا 3510
- And within them an infinite world: all this (vast) expanse (is contained) in a single tent.
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گه چو کابوسی نماید ماه را ** گه نماید روضه قعر چاه را
- Now He causes (one beautiful as) the moon to seem like an incubus (nightmare), now He causes the bottom of a well to have the semblance of a garden.
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قبض و بسط چشم دل از ذوالجلال ** دم به دم چون می‌کند سحر حلال
- Inasmuch as the closing and opening of the eye of the heart by the Almighty is continually working lawful magic,