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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.
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آینه بی‌نقش شد یابد بها ** زانک شد حاکی جمله نقشها
- (When) a mirror becomes devoid of images, it gains splendour because (then) it is the reporter (reflector) of all images.
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حکایت شیخ محمد سررزی غزنوی قدس الله سره
- Story of Shaykh Mohammed Sar-razí of Ghazna, may God sanctify his spirit!
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زاهدی در غزنی از دانش مزی ** بد محمد نام و کفیت سررزی
- In Ghazna there was an ascetic, abounding in knowledge (of divinity): his name was Mohammed and his title Sar-razí.
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بود افطارش سر رز هر شبی ** هفت سال او دایم اندر مطلبی
- Every night he would break his fast with vine-tendrils (sar-i raz): during seven years he was continually (engaged) in one quest.
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بس عجایب دید از شاه وجود ** لیک مقصودش جمال شاه بود
- He experienced many marvellous things from the King of existence, but his object was (to behold) the beauty of the King.