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عجلوا اصحابنا کی تربحوا ** عقل می‌گفت از درون لا تفرحوا
- Hasten, friends, that ye may get gain!” (But) Reason from within was saying ( to them), “Do not rejoice!”
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من رباح الله کونوا رابحین ** ان ربی لا یحب الفرحین 505
- Be gainers by the gain of God:lo, my Lord loveth not them that rejoice (overmuch).
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افرحوا هونا بما آتاکم ** کل آت مشغل الهاکم
- Rejoice (but) moderately on account of what He causeth to come to you: everything that comes and is a source of preoccupation diverts you (from Him).
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شاد از وی شو مشو از غیر وی ** او بهارست و دگرها ماه دی
- Rejoice in Him, do not rejoice in aught except Him: He is (as) the spring, and (all) other things (as) the month of December.
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هر چه غیر اوست استدراج تست ** گرچه تخت و ملکتست و تاج تست
- Everything other than He is the (means of) leading you gradually to perdition, (even) though it is your throne and kingdom and your crown.
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شاد از غم شو که غم دام لقاست ** اندرین ره سوی پستی ارتقاست
- Rejoice in sorrow, for sorrow is the snare of (means of attaining to) union (with God): in this Way the ascent is downwards.
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غم یکی گنجیست و رنج تو چو کان ** لیک کی در گیرد این در کودکان 510
- Sorrow is a treasure, and your pain is as the mine, but how should this (saying) catch hold of (make an impression on) children?
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کودکان چون نام بازی بشنوند ** جمله با خر گور هم تگ می‌دوند
- When children hear the name of “play,” they all run (after it) with the speed of a wild ass.
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ای خران کور این سو دامهاست ** در کمین این سوی خون‌آشامهاست
- O blind asses, in this direction there are snares; in this direction there are bloodsheds (concealed) in ambush.
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تیرها پران کمان پنهان ز غیب ** بر جوانی می‌رسد صد تیر شیب
- The arrows are flying, (but) the bow is hidden: from the Unseen World come upon youth a hundred arrows of hoary eld.