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من ز رحمت میکشانم پای تو ** کز طرب خود نیستم پروای تو
- ’Tis (only) out of pity that I am drawing thy feet (hither), for indeed such is my rapture that I have no care for thee.
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اندر آ و دیگران را هم بخوان ** کاندر آتش شاه بنهاده ست خوان 800
- Come in and call the others also, for the King has spread a (festal) table within the fire.
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اندر آیید ای مسلمانان همه ** غیر عذب دین عذاب است آن همه
- O true believers, come in, all of you: except the sweetness (‘adhbí) of (the true) religion all is torment (‘adháb).
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اندر آیید ای همه پروانهوار ** اندر این بهره که دارد صد بهار
- Oh, come in, all of you, like moths; (come) into this fortune which hath a hundred springtimes.”
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بانگ میزد در میان آن گروه ** پر همیشد جان خلقان از شکوه
- (Thus) he was crying amidst that multitude: the souls of the people were filled with awe.
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خلق خود را بعد از آن بیخویشتن ** میفگندند اندر آتش مرد و زن
- After that, the folk, men and women (alike), cast themselves unwittingly into the fire—
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بیموکل بیکشش از عشق دوست ** ز آن که شیرین کردن هر تلخ از اوست 805
- Without custodian, without being dragged, for love of the Friend, because from Him is the sweetening of every bitterness—
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تا چنان شد کان عوانان خلق را ** منع میکردند کاتش در میا
- Until it came to pass that the (king's) myrmidons were holding back the people, saying, “Do not enter the fire!”
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آن یهودی شد سیه رو و خجل ** شد پشیمان زین سبب بیمار دل
- The Jew became black-faced (covered with shame) and dismayed; he became sorry and sick at heart,
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کاندر ایمان خلق عاشقتر شدند ** در فنای جسم صادقتر شدند
- Because the people grew more loving (ardent) in their Faith and more firm in mortification (faná) of the body.