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کان طبیبان هم‌چو اسپ بی‌عذار ** غافل و بی‌بهره بودند از سوار
- How those physicians were like an unbridled horse, heedless of the rider and having no profit (of him).
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کامشان پر زخم از قرع لگام ** سمشان مجروح از تحویل گام
- (Though) their palates were covered with sores made by the impact of the bit, and their hooves wounded by (continually) changing step,
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ناشده واقف که نک بر پشت ما ** رایض و چستیست استادی‌نما 3675
- They had not become aware (of the truth and never said to themselves), “Lo, on our back is a nimble Trainer who displays masterly skill.
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نیست سرگردانی ما زین لگام ** جز ز تصریف سوار دوست‌کام
- Our turning the head to and fro is not caused by this bit, but only by the control of a successful Rider.
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ما پی گل سوی بستان‌ها شده ** گل نموده آن و آن خاری بده
- We (are like those who) went into the gardens to gather roses: they seemed to be roses, but they were (really) thorns.”
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هیچ‌شان این نی که گویند از خرد ** بر گلوی ما کی می‌کوبد لگد
- It never occurred to them to ask, (prompted) by reason, “Who is kicking (bruising) our throats?”
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آن طبیبان آن‌چنان بنده‌ی سبب ** گشته‌اند از مکر یزدان محتجب
- Those (worldly-wise) physicians (are) so enthralled by the secondary cause (that) they have become blind to God's contrivance.
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گر ببندی در صطبلی گاو نر ** باز یابی در مقام گاو خر 3680
- If you tether an ox in a stall and then find an ass in the place of the ox,
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از خری باشد تغافل خفته‌وار ** که نجویی تا کیست آن خفیه کار
- ’Twould be asinine carelessness, like (that of) a man in slumber, not to inquire who is the secret agent (that has effected the substitution).
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خود نگفته این مبدل تا کیست ** نیست پیدا او مگر افلاکیست
- (Yet) you never said, “Let me see who this changer is: he is not visible; surely, he is a celestial being.”