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نه از طریق گوش بل از وحی هوش ** رازها بد پیش او بی روی‌پوش
- Not (verbally) by way of the ear, but (silently) by inspiration (derived) from Reason: to him (all) mysteries were unveiled.
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گفت نقش رشک پروینست این ** صورت شه‌زاده‌ی چینست این
- He said, “This is the portrait of (her who is) an object of envy to the Pleiades: this is the picture of the Princess of China.
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هم‌چو جان و چون جنین پنهانست او ** در مکتم پرده و ایوانست او 3790
- She is hidden like the spirit and like the embryo: she is (kept) in a secret bower and palace.
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سوی او نه مرد ره دارد نه زن ** شاه پنهان کرد او را از فتن
- Neither man nor woman is admitted to her (presence): the King has concealed her on account of her fascinations.
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غیرتی دارد ملک بر نام او ** که نپرد مرغ هم بر بام او
- The King has a (great) jealousy for her (good) name, so that not even a bird flies above her roof.”
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وای آن دل کش چنین سودا فتاد ** هیچ کس را این چنین سودا مباد
- Alas for the heart that such an insane passion has stricken: may no one feel a passion like this!
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این سزای آنک تخم جهل کاشت ** وآن نصیحت را کساد و سهل داشت
- This is the retribution due to him who sowed the seed of ignorance and held light and cheap that (precious) counsel,
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اعتمادی کرد بر تدبیر خویش ** که برم من کار خود با عقل پیش 3795
- And put a (great) trust in his own management, saying, “By dint of intelligence I will carry my affair to success.”
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نیم ذره زان عنایت به بود ** که ز تدبیر خرد سیصد رصد
- Half a mite of the (King's) favour is better than three hundred spells (expedients) devised by the intellect.
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ترک مکر خویشتن گیر ای امیر ** پا بکش پیش عنایت خوش بمیر
- Abandon your own cunning, O Amír: draw back your foot before the (Divine) favour and gladly die.