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ذره‌ای از عقل و هوش ار با منست ** این چه سودا و پریشان گفتنست
- If a single mote of reason and consciousness is (remaining) with me, what is this melancholy madness and distracted speech?
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چونک مغز من ز عقل و هش تهیست ** پس گناه من درین تخلیط چیست
- Since my brain is empty of reason and consciousness, how then am I at fault in this raving?
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نه گناه اوراست که عقلم ببرد ** عقل جمله‌ی عاقلان پیشش بمرد 1910
- No; the fault is his, for he robbed me of my reason: in his presence the reason of all rational beings is dead.
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یا مجیر العقل فتان الحجی ** ما سواک للعقول مرتجی
- O thou who causest the reason to wander and the understanding to go astray, intelligences have no object of hope but thee.
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ما اشتهیت العقل مذ جننتنی ** ما حسدت الحسن مذ زینتنی
- I have never desired reason since thou mad’st me mad: I have never envied beauty since thou didst adorn me.
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هل جنونی فی هواک مستطاب ** قل بلی والله یجزیک الثواب
- Is my madness for love of thee approved? Say “Yes,” and God will reward thee.
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گر بتازی گوید او ور پارسی ** گوش و هوشی کو که در فهمش رسی
- Whether he speak Arabic or Persian, where is the ear and mind by means of which you should attain to the apprehension of it?
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باده‌ی او درخور هر هوش نیست ** حلقه‌ی او سخره‌ی هر گوش نیست 1915
- His wine is not suitable to every mind, his ring is not subject to every ear.
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باز دیگر آمدم دیوانه‌وار ** رو رو ای جان زود زنجیری بیار
- Once again I have become mad-like: go, go, my (dear) soul, quickly fetch a chain;
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غیر آن زنجیر زلف دلبرم ** گر دو صد زنجیر آری بردرم
- (But if you bring any) except the chain of my beloved's curl— though you bring two hundred chains, I will burst them (all).
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حکمت نظر کردن در چارق و پوستین کی فلینظر الانسان مم خلق
- The wise purpose (of Ayáz) in looking at his rustic shoon and sheepskin jacket—then let Man consider from what he was created.