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عاشقی کو در غم معشوق رفت ** گر چه بیرونست در صندوق رفت
- The lover who has fallen passionately in love with an (earthly) object of affection has gone into the chest, though (in appearance) he is outside.
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عمر در صندوق برد از اندهان ** جز که صندوقی نبیند از جهان
- He has spent (wasted) his life in the chest on account of (worldly) cares: he can see nothing of the world except a chest.
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آن سری که نیست فوق آسمان ** از هوس او را در آن صندوق دان
- The head that is not (raised) above the sky—know that it is (confined) in that chest by its vain desires.
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چون ز صندوق بدن بیرون رود ** او ز گوری سوی گوری می‌شود
- When he (such an one) goes forth from the chest of the body, he will (only) go from one tomb to another tomb.
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این سخن پایان ندارد قاضیش ** گفت ای حمال و ای صندوق‌کش 4500
- This topic is endless. The cadi said to him, “O porter, O carrier of the chest,
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از من آگه کن درون محکمه ** نایبم را زودتر با این همه
- Give news of me to my deputy at the court of justice and acquaint him with all (the details of) this (affair) as quickly as possible,
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تا خرد این را به زر زین بی‌خرد ** هم‌چنین بسته به خانه‌ی ما برد
- In order that he may buy this (chest) with gold from this witless fellow and take it fastened, just as it is, to my house.”
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ای خدا بگمار قومی روحمند ** تا ز صندوق بدنمان وا خرند
- O Lord, appoint a spiritually endowed company to redeem us from the chest of the body!
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خلق را از بند صندوق فسون ** کی خرد جز انبیا و مرسلون
- Who but the prophets and apostles can redeem the people from confinement in the chest of guile?
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از هزاران یک کسی خوش‌منظرست ** که بداند کو به صندوق اندرست 4505
- Among thousands there is (only) one person of comely aspect, who knows that he is inside the chest.