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صد هزاران مرد ترسا کشته شد ** تا ز سرهای بریده پشته شد
- Hundreds of thousands of Christians were slain, so that there were mounds of severed heads;
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خون روان شد همچو سیل از چپ و راست ** کوه کوه اندر هوا زین گرد خاست
- Blood flowed, on left and right, like a torrent; mountains of this dust (of battle) rose in the air.
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تخمهای فتنهها کاو کشته بود ** آفت سرهای ایشان گشته بود 705
- The seeds of dissension which he (the vizier) had sown had become a calamity (cause of destruction) to their heads.
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جوزها بشکست و آن کان مغز داشت ** بعد کشتن روح پاک نغز داشت
- The walnuts (bodies) were broken, and those which had the kernel had, after being slain, a spirit pure and fair.
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کشتن و مردن که بر نقش تن است ** چون انار و سیب را بشکستن است
- Slaughter and death which befalls the bodily frame is like breaking pomegranates and apples:
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آن چه شیرین است او شد ناردانگ ** و آن که پوسیده ست نبود غیر بانگ
- That which is sweet becomes pomegranate-syrup, and that which is rotten is naught but noise:
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آن چه با معنی است خود پیدا شود ** و آن چه پوسیده ست او رسوا شود
- That which has reality is made manifest (after death), and that which is rotten is put to shame.
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رو به معنی کوش ای صورت پرست ** ز آن که معنی بر تن صورت پر است 710
- Go, strive after reality, O worshipper of form, inasmuch as reality is the wing on form's body.
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همنشین اهل معنی باش تا ** هم عطا یابی و هم باشی فتا
- Consort with the followers of reality, that you may both win the gift and be generous (in giving yourself up to God).
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جان بیمعنی در این تن بیخلاف ** هست همچون تیغ چوبین در غلاف
- Beyond dispute, in this body the spirit devoid of reality is even as a wooden sword in the sheath: