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آنچنان کز فربهی هر یک جوان ** در نگنجیدی ز زفتی در جهان
- In such wise that each young man, because of fatness, was too stout to be contained in the world.
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با چنین گبزی و هفت اندام زفت ** از شکاف در برون جستند و رفت
- Notwithstanding such bigness and seven stout limbs, they sprang forth through a chink in the door and departed.
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راه مرگ خلق ناپیدا رهیست ** در نظر ناید که آن بی‌جا رهیست 2625
- The way of creaturely death is an invisible way: it comes not into sight, for it is a way without locality.
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نک پیاپی کاروانها مقتفی ** زین شکاف در که هست آن مختفی
- Lo, the caravans are following one after another through this chink which is hidden (from view) in the door.
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بر در ار جویی نیابی آن شکاف ** سخت ناپیدا و زو چندین زفاف
- If you look on the door for that chink, you will not find it: (it is) extremely unapparent, though (there are) so many processions through it.
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شرح آن کور دوربین و آن کر تیزشنو و آن برهنه دراز دامن
- Explaining (what is signified by) the far-sighted blind man, the deaf man who is sharp of hearing, and the naked man with the long skirts.
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کر امل را دان که مرگ ما شنید ** مرگ خود نشنید و نقل خود ندید
- Know that Hope is the deaf man who has (often) heard of our dying, (but) has not heard of his own death or regarded his own decease.
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حرص نابیناست بیند مو بمو ** عیب خلقان و بگوید کو بکو
- The blind man is Greed: he sees other people's faults, hair by hair, and tells them from street to street,
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عیب خود یک ذره چشم کور او ** می‌نبیند گرچه هست او عیب‌جو 2630
- (But) his blind eyes do not perceive one mote of his own faults, albeit he is a fault-finder.
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عور می‌ترسد که دامانش برند ** دامن مرد برهنه چون درند
- The naked man is afraid that his skirt will be cut off: how should they (any one) cut off the skirt of a naked man?
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مرد دنیا مفلس است و ترسناک ** هیچ او را نیست از دزدانش باک
- The worldly man is destitute and terrified: he possesses nothing, (yet) he has dread of thieves.