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همنشینی مقبلان چون کیمیاست ** چون نظرشان کیمیایی خود کجاست
- Companionship with kings is like the Elixir: indeed, how is an Elixir like (to be compared with) their looks (of favour)?
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چشم احمد بر ابو بکری زده ** او ز یک تصدیق صدیق آمده
- The eye of Ahmad (Mohammed) was cast upon an Abú Bakr: he by a single act of faith became a Siddíq.
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گفت من شه را پذیرا چون شوم ** بیبهانه سوی او من چون روم
- Said the husband, “How should I go to meet the King? How should I go to him without a pretext?
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نسبتی باید مرا یا حیلتی ** هیچ پیشه راست شد بیآلتی 2690
- I must have some reference or device: is any handicraft right (possible) without tools?
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همچو آن مجنون که بشنید از یکی ** که مرض آمد به لیلی اندکی
- As (to mention a similar case) the famous Majnún, when he heard from some one that Laylá was a little unwell,
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گفت آوه بیبهانه چون روم ** ور بمانم از عیادت چون شوم
- Cried, ‘Ah, how shall I go (to her) without a pretext? And if I fail to visit her when she is ill, how (wretched) shall I be!
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لیتنی کنت طبیبا حاذقا ** کنت أمشی نحو لیلی سابقا
- Would that I were a skilled physician! I would have gone on foot to Laylá first of all (before any one else).’
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قل تعالوا گفت حق ما را بدان ** تا بود شرم اشکنی ما را نشان
- God said to us, ‘Say, Come ye,’ in order to signify to us the (means of) vanquishing our feeling of shame.
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شب پران را گر نظر و آلت بدی ** روزشان جولان و خوش حالت بدی 2695
- If bats had sight and means (ability to bear the sunshine), they would fly about and enjoy themselves by day.”
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گفت چون شاه کرم میدان رود ** عین هر بیآلتی آلت شود
- The wife said, “When the gracious King goes into the field (maydán), the essence of every lack of means (inability) becomes a means (ability),