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این ز بارانهای رحمت بود یا ** بهر تهدید است و عدل کبریا
- Was it (one) of the rains of mercy, or (was it) for the sake of menace and the justice of (Divine) Majesty?
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این از آن لطف بهاریات بود ** یا ز پاییزی پر آفات بود
- Was it from the favour of the vernal attributes, or from a baneful autumnal attribute?”
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گفت این از بهر تسکین غم است ** کز مصیبت بر نژاد آدم است
- He said, “This (rain) was for the purpose of allaying the grief that is upon the race of Adam in calamity.
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گر بر آن آتش بماندی آدمی ** بس خرابی در فتادی و کمی
- If man were to remain in that fire (of grief), much ruin and loss would befall.
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این جهان ویران شدی اندر زمان ** حرصها بیرون شدی از مردمان 2065
- This world would at once become desolate: (all) selfish desires would go forth from men.”
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استن این عالم ای جان غفلت است ** هوشیاری این جهان را آفت است
- Forgetfulness (of God), O beloved, is the pillar (prop) of this world: (spiritual) intelligence is a bane to this world.
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هوشیاری ز آن جهان است و چو آن ** غالب آید پست گردد این جهان
- Intelligence belongs to that (other) world, and when it prevails, this world is overthrown.
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هوشیاری آفتاب و حرص یخ ** هوشیاری آب و این عالم وسخ
- Intelligence is the sun and cupidity the ice; intelligence is the water and this world the dirt.
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ز آن جهان اندک ترشح می‌‌رسد ** تا نغرد در جهان حرص و حسد
- A little trickle (of intelligence) is coming from yonder world, that cupidity and envy may not roar (too loudly) in this world.
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گر ترشح بیشتر گردد ز غیب ** نی هنر ماند در این عالم نه عیب 2070
- If the trickle from the Unseen should become greater, in this world neither virtue nor vice will be left.