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هدیهها میداد هر درویش را ** تا بیابد نطق مرغ خویش را
- He was giving presents to every dervish, that he might get back the speech of his bird.
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بعد سه روز و سه شب حیران و زار ** بر دکان بنشسته بد نومید وار
- After three days and three nights, he was seated on the bench, distraught and sorrowful, like a man in despair,
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مینمود آن مرغ را هر گون شگفت ** تا که باشد کاندر آید او بگفت
- Showing the bird every sort of hidden (unfamiliar) thing (in the hope) that maybe it would begin to speak.
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جولقیی سر برهنه میگذشت ** با سر بیمو چو پشت طاس و طشت
- Meanwhile a bare-headed dervish, clad in a jawlaq (coarse woollen frock), passed by, with a head hairless as the outside of bowl and basin.
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طوطی اندر گفت آمد در زمان ** بانگ بر درویش زد که هی فلان 260
- Thereupon the parrot cried to the dervish, as rational persons (might have done).
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از چه ای کل با کلان آمیختی ** تو مگر از شیشه روغن ریختی
- How were you mixed up with the bald, O baldpate? Did you, then, spill oil from the bottle?”
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از قیاسش خنده آمد خلق را ** کو چو خود پنداشت صاحب دلق را
- The bystanders laughed at the parrot's inference, because it deemed the wearer of the frock to be like itself.
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کار پاکان را قیاس از خود مگیر ** گر چه ماند در نبشتن شیر و شیر
- Do not measure the actions of holy men by (the analogy of) yourself, though shér (lion) and shír (milk) are similar in writing.
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جمله عالم زین سبب گمراه شد ** کم کسی ز ابدال حق آگاه شد
- On this account the whole world is gone astray: scarcely any one is cognisant of God's Abdál (Substitutes).
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همسری با انبیا برداشتند ** اولیا را همچو خود پنداشتند 265
- They set up (a claim of) equality with the prophets; they supposed the saints to be like themselves.