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زین خیال ره‌زن راه یقین ** گشت هفتاد و دو ملت اهل دین
- By this phantasy, which infests the road of Faith like a brigand, the followers of the (true) Religion have become (split into) two and seventy sects.
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مرد ایقان رست از وهم و خیال ** موی ابرو را نمی‌گوید هلال
- The man of sure faith is delivered from imagination and phantasy: he does not call a hair of the eyebrow the new moon,
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وآنک نور عمرش نبود سند ** موی ابروی کژی راهش زند
- While he that has not the (spiritual) light of ‘Umar as his support is waylaid (deceived) by a crooked hair of the eyebrow.
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صد هزاران کشتی با هول و سهم ** تخته تخته گشته در دریای وهم
- A hundred thousand awful and terrible ships have been shattered to pieces in the sea of imagination.
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کمترین فرعون چست فیلسوف ** ماه او در برج وهمی در خسوف 2660
- The least (of them is) the energetic and ingenious Pharaoh: his moon was eclipsed in the mansion of imagination.
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کس نداند روسپی‌زن کیست آن ** وانک داند نیستش بر خود گمان
- Nobody knows who is the cuckold, and he that knows has no doubt concerning himself.
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چون ترا وهم تو دارد خیره‌سر ** از چه گردی گرد وهم آن دگر
- Since thine own imagination keeps thee giddy-headed, wherefore shouldst thou revolve round the imagination of another?
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عاجزم من از منی خویشتن ** چه نشستی پر منی تو پیش من
- I am helpless against my own egoism: why hast thou, full of egoism, sat down beside me?
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بی‌من و مایی همی‌جویم به جان ** تا شوم من گوی آن خوش صولجان
- I am seeking with (all) my soul one who is free from egoism, that I may become the ball of that goodly bat.
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هر که بی‌من شد همه من‌ها خود اوست ** دوست جمله شد چو خود را نیست دوست 2665
- In sooth any one who has become without ego is all egos: when he is not loved by himself he becomes loved by (them) all.