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زیرکی سباحی آمد در بحار ** کم رهد غرقست او پایان کار
- Intelligence is (like) swimming in the seas: he (the swimmer) is not saved: he is drowned at the end of the business.
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هل سباحت را رها کن کبر و کین ** نیست جیحون نیست جو دریاست این
- Leave off swimming, let pride and enmity go: this is not a Jayhun (Oxus) or a (lesser) river, it is an ocean;
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وانگهان دریای ژرف بی‌پناه ** در رباید هفت دریا را چو کاه 1405
- And, moreover, (it is) the deep Ocean without refuge: it sweeps away the seven seas like straw.
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عشق چون کشتی بود بهر خواص ** کم بود آفت بود اغلب خلاص
- Love is as a ship for the elect: seldom is calamity (the result); for the most part it is deliverance.
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زیرکی بفروش و حیرانی بخر ** زیرکی ظنست و حیرانی نظر
- Sell intelligence and buy bewilderment: intelligence is opinion, while bewilderment is (immediate) vision.
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عقل قربان کن به پیش مصطفی ** حسبی الله گو که الله‌ام کفی
- Sacrifice your understanding in the presence of Mustafá (Mohammed) say, “hasbiya ‘lláh, for God sufficeth me.”
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هم‌چو کنعان سر ز کشتی وا مکش ** که غرورش داد نفس زیرکش
- Do not draw back your head from the ship (ark), like Kan‘án (Canaan), whom his intelligent soul deluded,
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که برآیم بر سر کوه مشید ** منت نوحم چرا باید کشید 1410
- Saying, “I will go up to the top of the lofty mountain: why must I bear gratitude (be under an obligation) to Noah?”
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چون رمى از منتش اى بىرشد ** كه خدا هم منت او مىكشد
- How should you recoil from being grateful to him, O unrighteous one, when even God bears gratitude to him?
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چون رمی از منتش بر جان ما ** چونک شکر و منتش گوید خدا
- How should gratitude to him not be (as an obligation) on our souls, when God gives him words of thankful praise and gratitude?