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پس دهان دل ببند و مهر کن ** پر کنش از باد کبر من لدن 990
- Therefore stopper and seal the mouth of your heart, and fill it from the Divine ventilator.
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جهد حق است و دوا حق است و درد ** منکر اندر نفی جهدش جهد کرد
- Exertion is a reality, and medicine and disease are realities: the sceptic in his denial of exertion practised (and thereby affirmed) exertion.
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مقرر شدن ترجیح جهد بر توکل
- How the superiority of exertion to trust in God was established.
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زین نمط بسیار برهان گفت شیر ** کز جواب آن جبریان گشتند سیر
- The lion gave many proofs in this style, so that those necessitarians became tired of answering (him).
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روبه و آهو و خرگوش و شغال ** جبر را بگذاشتند و قیل و قال
- Fox and deer and hare and jackal abandoned (the doctrine of) necessity and (ceased from) disputation.
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عهدها کردند با شیر ژیان ** کاندر این بیعت نیفتد در زیان
- They made covenants with the furious lion, (ensuring) that he should incur no loss in this bargain,
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قسم هر روزش بیاید بی‌‌جگر ** حاجتش نبود تقاضای دگر 995
- (That) the daily ration should come to him without trouble, and that he should not need to make a further demand.
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قرعه بر هر که فتادی روز روز ** سوی آن شیر او دویدی همچو یوز
- Day by day the one on whom the lot fell would run to the lion as (swiftly as) a cheetah.
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چون به خرگوش آمد این ساغر به دور ** بانگ زد خرگوش کاخر چند جور
- When this cup (of death) came round to the hare, the hare cried out, “Why, how long (are we to endure this) injustice?”
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انکار کردن نخجیران بر خرگوش در تاخیر رفتن بر شیر
- How the beasts of chase blamed the hare for his delay in going to the lion.
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قوم گفتندش که چندین گاه ما ** جان فدا کردیم در عهد و وفا
- The company (of beasts) said to him: “All this time we have sacrificed our lives in troth and loyalty.
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تو مجو بد نامی ما ای عنود ** تا نرنجد شیر رو رو زود زود
- Do not thou seek to give us a bad name, O rebellious one! Lest the lion be aggrieved, go, go! Quick! Quick!”
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جواب گفتن خرگوش نخجیران را
- How the hare answered the beasts.