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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.
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گفته اینک ما بشر ایشان بشر ** ما و ایشان بسته‌‌ی خوابیم و خور
- “Behold,” they said, “we are men, they are men; both we and they are in bondage to sleep and food.”
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این ندانستند ایشان از عمی ** هست فرقی در میان بی‌‌منتها
- In (their) blindness they did not perceive that there is an infinite difference between (them).
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هر دو گون زنبور خوردند از محل ** لیک شد ز ان نیش و زین دیگر عسل
- Both species of zanbúr ate and drank from the (same) place, but from that one (the hornet) came a sting, and from this other (the bee) honey.
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هر دو گون آهو گیا خوردند و آب ** زین یکی سرگین شد و ز ان مشک ناب
- Both species of deer ate grass and drank water: from this one came dung, and from that one pure musk.
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هر دو نی خوردند از یک آب خور ** این یکی خالی و آن پر از شکر 270
- Both reeds drank from the same water-source, (but) this one is empty and that one full of sugar.
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صد هزاران این چنین اشباه بین ** فرقشان هفتاد ساله راه بین
- Consider hundreds of thousands of such likenesses and observe that the distance between the two is (as great as) a seventy years' journey.
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این خورد گردد پلیدی زو جدا ** آن خورد گردد همه نور خدا
- This one eats, and filth is discharged from him; that one eats, and becomes entirely the light of God.
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این خورد زاید همه بخل و حسد ** و آن خورد زاید همه نور احد
- This one eats, (and of him) is born nothing but avarice and envy; that one eats, (and of him) is born nothing but the Light of the One (God).
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این زمین پاک و ان شوره ست و بد ** این فرشته‌‌ی پاک و ان دیو است و دد
- This one is good (fertile) soil and that one brackish and bad; this one is a fair angel and that one a devil and wild beast.