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ای که عقلت بر عطارد دق کند ** عقل و عاقل را قضا احمق کند 3880
- O thou whose intellect jeers at Mercury (the celestial Scribe), Destiny makes a fool of intellect and the intelligent.
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نحس خرگوشی که باشد شیرجو ** زیرکی و عقل و چالاکیت کو
- Luckless is the hare that seeks (to encounter) the lion: where is thy cleverness and intelligence and quick-wittedness?
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هست صد چندین فسونهای قضا ** گفت اذا جاء القضا ضاق الفضا
- The wiles of Destiny are a hundred times as many (as thine): he (the Prophet) has said, ‘When Destiny comes, the wide field is straitened.’
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صد ره و مخلص بود از چپ و راست ** از قضا بسته شود کو اژدهاست
- There are a hundred ways and places of refuge on left and right, (but) they are barred by Destiny, for it is a dragon.”
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جواب گفتن عاشق عاذلان را وتهدید کنندگان را
- How the lover answered those who scolded and threatened him.
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گفت من مستسقیم آبم کشد ** گرچه میدانم که هم آبم کشد
- He said, “I am dropsical: the water draws me, though I know that the water too will kill me.
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هیچ مستقسقی بنگریزد ز آب ** گر دو صد بارش کند مات و خراب 3885
- None afflicted with dropsy will flee from the water, even if it checkmate and ruin him two hundred times.
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گر بیاماسد مرا دست و شکم ** عشق آب از من نخواهد گشت کم
- If my hands and belly become swollen, (yet) the passionate desire for the water will not abate (and depart) from me.
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گویم آنگه که بپرسند از بطون ** کاشکی بحرم روان بودی درون
- At the time when they ask me of my inward state, I say, ‘Would that the Sea were flowing within me!’
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خیک اشکم گو بدر از موج آب ** گر بمیرم هست مرگم مستطاب
- Let the water-skin, my belly, be burst by the waves of the water: if I die, my death is acceptable.
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من بهر جایی که بینم آب جو ** رشکم آید بودمی من جای او
- Wherever I see the water of a stream, jealousy comes over me (and I wish) that I might be in its place.