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مکرهای جبریانم بسته کرد ** تیغ چوبینشان تنم را خسته کرد
- The tricks of the necessitarians have bound me (in captivity); their wooden sword has wounded my body.
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زین سپس من نشنوم آن دمدمه ** بانگ دیوان است و غولان آن همه
- After this I will not hearken to their palaver: all that is (only meant to deceive, like) the cry of demons and ghouls.
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بردران ای دل تو ایشان را مه‌‌ایست ** پوستشان بر کن کشان جز پوست نیست 1095
- O my heart, tear them to pieces, do not lag; rend their skins, for they have naught but skin.”
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پوست چه بود گفتهای رنگ رنگ ** چون زره بر آب کش نبود درنگ
- What is skin? Specious words, like ripples on water which have no continuance.
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این سخن چون پوست و معنی مغز دان ** این سخن چون نقش و معنی همچو جان
- Know that these words are as the skin (rind), and the meaning is (as) the kernel; these words are as the form, and the meaning is like the spirit.
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پوست باشد مغز بد را عیب پوش ** مغز نیکو را ز غیرت غیب پوش
- The skin hides the defect of the bad kernel; it (also) hides jealously the secrets of the good kernel.
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چون قلم از باد بد دفتر ز آب ** هر چه بنویسی فنا گردد شتاب
- When the pen is of wind and the scroll of water, whatever you write perishes speedily;
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نقش آب است ار وفا جویی از آن ** باز گردی دستهای خود گزان 1100
- It is written on water: if you seek constancy from it, you will return biting your hands (in disappointment).
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باد در مردم هوا و آرزوست ** چون هوا بگذاشتی پیغام هوست
- The wind in men is vanity and desire; when you have abandoned vanity, (then) is (the time for) the message from Him (God).
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خوش بود پیغامهای کردگار ** کاو ز سر تا پای باشد پایدار
- Sweet are the messages of the Maker, for it (that message) from head to foot (from first to last) is enduring.