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چون بگهتر قلبی او رو نمود ** پای خود زو وا کشم من زود زود
- Since its (the coin's) baseness has been revealed earlier (in good time), I will step back from it very quickly.”
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یار تو چون دشمنی پیدا کند ** گر حقد و رشک او بیرون زند
- When your friend displays enmity (and when) the itch of his hatred and jealousy shoots forth (manifests itself),
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تو از آن اعراض او افغان مکن ** خویشتن را ابله و نادان مکن 1515
- Do not bewail his aversion, do not make yourself (do not let yourself behave as) a fool and ignoramus;
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بلک شکر حق کن و نان بخش کن ** که نگشتی در جوال او کهن
- Nay, thank God and give bread (alms), (in gratitude) that you have not become old (and rotten) in his sack,
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از جوالش زود بیرون آمدی ** تا بجویی یار صدق سرمدی
- (But) have quickly come out of his sack to seek the true Eternal Friend,
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نازنین یاری که بعد از مرگ تو ** رشتهی یاری او گردد سه تو
- The delectable Friend whose friendship's cord becomes threefold (thrice as strong) after thy death.
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آن مگر سلطان بود شاه رفیع ** یا بود مقبول سلطان و شفیع
- That friend, in sooth, may be the (Divine) Sultan and exalted King, or he may be one accepted of the Sultan and one who intercedes (with Him).
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رستی از قلاب و سالوس و دغل ** غر او دیدی عیان پیش از اجل 1520
- You are (now) delivered from the false coiner and (his) hypocrisy and fraud: you have seen his tumour (imposture) plainly before death.
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این جفای خلق با تو در جهان ** گر بدانی گنج زر آمد نهان
- If you understood (aright) this injustice shown towards you by the people in the world, it is a hidden treasure of gold.
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خلق را با تو چنین بدخو کنند ** تا ترا ناچار رو آن سو کنند
- The people are made to be thus evil-natured towards you, that your face may inevitably be turned Yonder.