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حلقه زد بر در به صد ترس و ادب ** تا بنجهد بی‌‌ادب لفظی ز لب
- He knocked at the door with a hundred fears and respects, lest any disrespectful word might escape from his lips.
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بانگ زد یارش که بر در کیست آن ** گفت بر درهم تویی ای دلستان
- His friend called to him, “Who is at the door?” He answered, “’Tis thou art at the door, O charmer of hearts.”
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گفت اکنون چون منی ای من در آ ** نیست گنجایی دو من را در سرا
- “Now,” said the friend, “since thou art I, come in, O myself: there is not room in the house for two I's.
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نیست سوزن را سر رشته دو تا ** چون که یکتایی درین سوزن در آ
- The double end of thread is not for the needle: inasmuch as thou art single, come into this needle.”
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رشته را با سوزن آمد ارتباط ** نیست در خور با جمل سم الخیاط 3065
- ’Tis the thread that is connected with the needle: the eye of the needle is not suitable for the camel.
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کی شود باریک هستی جمل ** جز به مقراض ریاضات و عمل
- How should the existence (body) of the camel be fined down save by the shears of ascetic exercises and works?
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دست حق باید مر آن را ای فلان ** کاو بود بر هر محالی کن فکان
- For that, O reader, the hand (power) of God is necessary, for it is the Be, and it was (bringer into existence) of every (seemingly) impossible thing.
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هر محال از دست او ممکن شود ** هر حرون از بیم او ساکن شود
- By His hand every impossible thing is made possible; by fear of Him every unruly one is made quiet.
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اکمه و ابرص چه باشد مرده نیز ** زنده گردد از فسون آن عزیز
- What of the man blind from birth and the leper? Even the dead is made living by the spell of the Almighty,
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و آن عدم کز مرده مرده‌‌تر بود ** در کف ایجاد او مضطر بود 3070
- And that non-existence which is more dead than the dead— compelled (helpless) in the hand of (under the power of) His bringing (it) into existence.