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آه سوزانش سوی گردون شده ** در دل صدر جهان مهر آمده
- His burning sighs went up to heaven: kindness (for him) came into the heart of the Sadr-i Jahán,
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گفته با خود در سحرگه کای احد ** حال آن آواره‌ی ما چون بود
- (Who) said, (communing) with himself at dawn, “O (Thou who art) One, how fareth that distraught wanderer of Ours?
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او گناهی کرد و ما دیدیم لیک ** رحمت ما را نمی‌دانست نیک 4380
- He committed a sin, and We saw (it), but he was not well acquainted with Our mercy.
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خاطر مجرم ز ما ترسان شود ** لیک صد اومید در ترسش بود
- The sinner’s heart becomes afraid of Us, but in his fear there are a hundred hopes.
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من بترسانم وقیح یاوه را ** آنک ترسد من چه ترسانم ورا
- I frighten the impudent man who has lost the (right) way: why should I frighten him who is afraid?
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بهر دیگ سرد آذر می‌رود ** نه بدان کز جوش از سر می‌رود
- Fire is used for the cold pot, not for that (pot) which is boiling over.
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آمنان را من بترسانم به علم ** خایفان را ترس بردارم به حلم
- I frighten the unafraid by (My) knowledge; I take away the fear of the afraid by (My) clemency.
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پاره‌دوزم پاره در موضع نهم ** هر کسی را شربت اندر خور دهم 4385
- I am a patcher: I put the patch in (its proper) place; I give drink to every one in due measure.”
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هست سر مرد چون بیخ درخت ** زان بروید برگهاش از چوب سخت
- A man’s inmost consciousness is like the root of a tree; hence his leaves grow from the hard wood.
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درخور آن بیخ رسته برگها ** در درخت و در نفوس و در نهی
- The leaves grow according to the root, in the tree and in souls and in minds.