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ترک‌تاز و تن‌گداز و بی‌حیا ** در بلا چون سنگ زیر آسیا
- (The lover is) fierce in onset and body-consuming and unabashed: in tribulation, like the nether millstone;
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سخت‌رویی که ندارد هیچ پشت ** بهره‌جویی را درون خویش کشت
- A hard-faced one that has no back: he has killed in himself the seeking of self-interest.
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پاک می‌بازد نباشد مزدجو ** آنچنان که پاک می‌گیرد ز هو 1970
- He gambles (everything) clean away, he seeks no reward, even as he receives (everything) clean (as a free gift) from Him (God).
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می‌دهد حق هستیش بی‌علتی ** می‌سپارد باز بی‌علت فتی
- God gives him his existence without any cause: the devoted (lover) yields it up again without cause;
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که فتوت دادن بی علتست ** پاک‌بازی خارج هر ملتست
- For devotion consists in giving without cause: gambling (one's self) clean away (pure self-sacrifice) is outside of (transcends) every religion.
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زانک ملت فضل جوید یا خلاص ** پاک بازانند قربانان خاص
- Forasmuch as religion seeks (Divine) grace or salvation, those who gamble (everything) clean away are (God's) chosen favourites.
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نی خدا را امتحانی می‌کنند ** نی در سود و زیانی می‌زنند
- Neither do they put God to any test, nor do they knock at the door of any profit or loss.
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باز دادن شاه گنج‌نامه را به آن فقیر کی بگیر ما از سر این برخاستیم
- How the king gave back the treasure-scroll to the fakir, saying, “Take it: we are quit of it.”
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چونک رقعه‌ی گنج پر آشوب را ** شه مسلم داشت آن مکروب را 1975
- When the king handed over to that grief-stricken man the treasure-scroll (which was) fraught with commotion,
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گشت آمن او ز خصمان و ز نیش ** رفت و می‌پیچید در سودای خویش
- He (the fakir) became secure from rivals and annoyance, (so) he went and wrapped himself in his melancholy madness.
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یار کرد او عشق درداندیش را ** کلب لیسد خویش ریش خویش را
- He made sad-thoughted Love his friend: a dog licks his own sore himself.