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ای شهان کشتیم ما خصم برون ** ماند خصمی زو بتر در اندرون
- O kings, we have slain the outward enemy, (but) there remains within (us) a worse enemy than he.
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کشتن این کار عقل و هوش نیست ** شیر باطن سخره‌‌ی خرگوش نیست
- To slay this (enemy) is not the work of reason and intelligence: the inward lion is not subdued by the hare.
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دوزخ است این نفس و دوزخ اژدهاست ** کاو به دریاها نگردد کم و کاست 1375
- This carnal self (nafs) is Hell, and Hell is a dragon (the fire of) which is not diminished by oceans (of water).
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هفت دریا را در آشامد هنوز ** کم نگردد سوزش آن خلق سوز
- It would drink up the Seven Seas, and still the blazing of that consumer of all creatures would not become less.
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سنگها و کافران سنگ دل ** اندر آیند اندر او زار و خجل
- Stones and stony-hearted infidels enter it, miserable and shamefaced,
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هم نگردد ساکن از چندین غذا ** تا ز حق آید مر او را این ندا
- (But) still it is not appeased by all this food, until there comes to it from God this call—
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سیر گشتی سیر گوید نی هنوز ** اینت آتش اینت تابش اینت سوز
- “Art thou filled, art thou filled?” It says, “Not yet; lo, here is the fire, here is the glow, here is the burning!”
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عالمی را لقمه کرد و در کشید ** معده‌‌اش نعره زنان هل من مزید 1380
- It made a mouthful of and swallowed a whole world, its belly crying aloud, “Is there any more?”
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حق قدم بر وی نهد از لا مکان ** آن گه او ساکن شود از کن فکان
- God, from (the realm) where place is not, sets His foot on it: then it subsides at (the command) Be, and it was.
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چون که جزو دوزخ است این نفس ما ** طبع کل دارد همیشه جزوها
- Inasmuch as this self of ours is a part of Hell, and the parts always have the nature of the whole,