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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?
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تو چه دانی ای غراره‌ی پر حسد ** منت او را خدا هم می‌کشد
- What do you know (about his exalted state), O sack full of envy? Even God bears gratitude to him.
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کاشکی او آشنا ناموختی ** تا طمع در نوح و کشتی دوختی
- Would that he (one like Kan‘án) had not learned to swim, so that he might have fixed his hope on Noah and the ark!
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کاش چون طفل از حیل جاهل بدی ** تا چو طفلان چنگ در مادر زدی 1415
- Would that, like a child, he had been ignorant of devices, so that, like children, he might have clung to his mother,