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باش کشتیبان درین بحر صفا ** که تو نوح ثانیی ای مصطفی
- Be the captain (pilot) of the ship in this sea of (spiritual) purity, for thou art a second Noah, O Mustafá (elect one).
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ره شناسی میبباید با لباب ** هر رهی را خاصه اندر راه آب
- An expert guide, (endowed) with understanding, is needed for every road, especially in the road (journey) on the water.
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خیز بنگر کاروان رهزده ** هر طرف غولیست کشتیبان شده 1460
- Arise! Look upon the waylaid caravan: everywhere a ghoul has become captain of the ship.
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خضر وقتی غوث هر کشتی توی ** همچو روحالله مکن تنها روی
- Thou art the Khizr of the time and the Deliverer of every ship (in distress): do not, like (Jesus) the Spirit of God, practise solitude.
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پیش این جمعی چو شمع آسمان ** انقطاع و خلوت آری را بمان
- In the sight of this assembly (of people) thou art as the candle of heaven: leave off severing thyself (from them) and adopting seclusion.
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وقت خلوت نیست اندر جمع آی ** ای هدی چون کوه قاف و تو همای
- ’Tis not the time for seclusion: come into the assembly, O thou who art (as) the humáy, while the guidance (of souls) is like Mount Qáf.
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بدر بر صدر فلک شد شب روان ** سیر را نگذارد از بانگ سگان
- The full-moon is moving by night on the upper part of the sky: it does not cease from its journey because of the outcry of the dogs.
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طاعنان همچون سگان بر بدر تو ** بانگ میدارند سوی صدر تو 1465
- The scoffers keep making an outcry, like dogs, at thy full-moon in the direction of thy high place.
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این سگان کرند از امر انصتوا ** از سفه و عوع کنان بر بدر تو
- These dogs are deaf to the (Divine) command, ‘Be ye silent’: from folly (they are) bow-wowing at thy full-moon.
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هین بمگذار ای شفا رنجور را ** تو ز خشم کر عصای کور را
- Hark, O (thou who art) the cure for the sick, do not, on account of anger against the deaf, let go the staff of the blind.