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او همیگوید مرادم عفتست ** از شما مقصود صدق و همتست
- She keeps saying, What I want is chastity: the thing sought from you is sincerity and high-mindedness.’
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گفت صوفی خود جهاز و مال ما ** دید و میبیند هویدا و خفا 205
- The Súfí said, ‘In sooth she has seen and is seeing our household goods and possessions, (both) the overt and the covert—
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خانهی تنگی مقام یک تنی ** که درو پنهان نماند سوزنی
- A narrow house, a dwelling-place for a single person, where a needle would not remain hid.
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باز ستر و پاکی و زهد و صلاح ** او ز ما به داند اندر انتصاح
- Moreover, she in (her) guilelessness knows better than we (what is) modesty and purity and renunciation and virtue.
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به ز ما میداند او احوال ستر ** وز پس و پیش و سر و دنبال ستر
- She knows better than we (all) the aspects of modesty, and the rear and front and head and tail of modesty.
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ظاهرا او بیجهاز و خادمست ** وز صلاح و ستر او خود عالمست
- Evidently she (our daughter) is without household goods and servant, and she (the lady) herself is well-acquainted with virtue and modesty.
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شرح مستوری ز بابا شرط نیست ** چون برو پیدا چو روز روشنیست 210
- It is not required of a father to dilate on (his daughter's) modesty, when in her it is manifest as a bright day.’
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این حکایت را بدان گفتم که تا ** لاف کم بافی چو رسوا شد خطا
- I have told this story with the intent that thou mayst not weave idle talk when the offence is glaring.
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مر ترا ای هم به دعوی مستزاد ** این بدستت اجتهاد و اعتقاد
- O thou who art likewise excessive in thy pretension, to thee (in thy case) there has been this (same hypocritical) exertion and (vain) belief.
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چون زن صوفی تو خاین بودهای ** دام مکر اندر دغا بگشودهای
- Thou hast been unfaithful, like the Súfí's wife: thou hast opened in fraud the snare of cunning,