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مرگ و جسک ای اهل انکار و نفاق ** عاقبت خواهد بدن این اتفاق
- Death and woe (to you)! O unbelievers and hypocrites, this will befall (you) in the end,
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چشمتان تر باشد از بعد خلاص ** که شوید از بهر شهوت دیو خاص
- (That) after deliverance ye will rejoice to become peculiar devils for the sake of (gratifying) your lust,
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یادتان ناید که روزی در خطر ** دستتان بگرفت یزدان از قدر
- And will not remember that in the day of peril God took your hands (to save you) from His decree.”
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این همیآمد ندا از دیو لیک ** این سخن را نشنود جز گوش نیک 2195
- This cry was coming from the Devil; but these words are unheard except by a good ear.
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راست فرمودست با ما مصطفی ** قطب و شاهنشاه و دریای صفا
- Mustafá (Mohammed), the Pole and the Emperor and the Sea of Purity, has told us truly,
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کانچ جاهل دید خواهد عاقبت ** عاقلان بینند ز اول مرتبت
- That what the ignorant will see in the end the wise see from the first step.
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کارها ز آغاز اگر غیبست و سر ** عاقل اول دید و آخر آن مصر
- If matters are hidden and secret at the beginning, the wise man sees at first, while that obstinate one (sees) at last.
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اولش پوشیده باشد و آخر آن ** عاقل و جاهل ببیند در عیان
- The beginning thereof is concealed, and both the wise man and the ignorant will see the end in (the moment of its) manifestation;
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گر نبینی واقعهی غیب ای عنود ** حزم را سیلاب کی اندر ربود 2200
- (But) if you, O contumacious one, do not see the hidden event (before it comes to pass)—when did the torrent sweep away your prudence?
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حزم چه بود بدگمانی بر جهان ** دم بدم بیند بلای ناگهان
- What is prudence? To think ill of the world. He (the prudent man) at every moment will (expect to) see a sudden calamity.
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تصورات مرد حازم
- The ideas of the prudent man.