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شاهی و شه‌زادگی در باختست ** از پی تو در غریبی ساختست
- He has gambled away kingship and princedom: for thy sake he has put up with living in exile.
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صوفیست انداخت خرقه وجد در ** کی رود او بر سر خرقه دگر 4415
- He is a Súfí: he has flung away his mantle in ecstasy: how should he turn again to his mantle?
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میل سوی خرقه‌ی داده و ندم ** آنچنان باشد که من مغبون شدم
- To hanker for the given away mantle and repent (of having given it) is as much as to say, ‘I have been swindled:
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باز ده آن خرقه این سو ای قرین ** که نمی‌ارزید آن یعنی بدین
- Put the mantle back here, O comrade, for that (ecstasy) was not worth it, that is, (not worth) this (mantle).’
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دور از عاشق که این فکر آیدش ** ور بیاید خاک بر سر بایدش
- Far be it from a lover that such a thought should occur to him; and if it do, dust ought to be (sprinkled) on his head.
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عشق ارزد صد چو خرقه کالبد ** که حیاتی دارد و حس و خرد
- Love is worth a hundred mantles like that of the body, which contains a (principle of) life and sensation and reason;
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خاصه خرقه‌ی ملک دنیا کابترست ** پنج دانگ مستیش درد سرست 4420
- Especially the mantle of worldly dominion, which is cut short (exiguous): a pennyworth of intoxication with it is (results in) headache.
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ملک دنیا تن‌پرستان را حلال ** ما غلام ملک عشق بی‌زوال
- Worldly dominion is lawful (only) to those who indulge the body: we (lovers) are devoted to the everlasting kingdom of Love.
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عامل عشقست معزولش مکن ** جز به عشق خویش مشغولش مکن
- He (the prince) is Love's agent: do not deprive him of his employment, do not let him be employed in aught but loving thee.
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منصبی کانم ز ریت محجبست ** عین معزولیست و نامش منصبست
- The office (business) that veils me from (the sight of) thy face is the very essence of unemployment, though it is called ‘office.’