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من چگونه هوش دارم پیش و پس ** چون نباشد نور یارم پیش و پس
- How should I have consciousness (of aught) before or behind when the light of my Beloved is not before me and behind?
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عشق خواهد کاین سخن بیرون بود ** آینه غماز نبود چون بود
- Love wills that this Word should be shown forth: if the mirror does not reflect, how is that?
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آینه‌‌ت دانی چرا غماز نیست ** ز انکه زنگار از رخش ممتاز نیست
- Dost thou know why the mirror (of thy soul) reflects nothing? Because the rust is not cleared from its face.
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عاشق شدن پادشاه بر کنیزک رنجور و تدبیر کردن در صحت او
- How the king fell in love with the sick handmaiden and made plans to restore her health.
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بشنوید ای دوستان این داستان ** خود حقیقت نقد حال ماست آن 35
- O my friends, hearken to this tale: in truth it is the very marrow of our inward state.
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بود شاهی در زمانی پیش از این ** ملک دنیا بودش و هم ملک دین
- In olden time there was a king to whom belonged the power temporal and also the power spiritual.
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اتفاقا شاه روزی شد سوار ** با خواص خویش از بهر شکار
- It chanced that one day he rode with his courtiers to the chase.
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یک کنیزک دید شه بر شاه راه ** شد غلام آن کنیزک جان شاه
- On the king's highway the king espied a handmaiden: the king was enthralled by her.
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مرغ جانش در قفس چون می‌‌طپید ** داد مال و آن کنیزک را خرید
- Forasmuch as the bird, his soul, was fluttering in its cage, he gave money and bought the handmaiden.
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چون خرید او را و برخوردار شد ** آن کنیزک از قضا بیمار شد 40
- After he had bought her and won to his desire, by Divine destiny she sickened.
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آن یکی خر داشت، پالانش نبود ** یافت پالان گرگ خر را در ربود
- A certain man had an ass but no pack-saddle: (as soon as) he got a saddle, the wolf carried away his ass.