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هین چه می‌گردی تو جویان با چراغ ** در میان روز روشن چیست لاغ
- Hey, why are you going about in search (of something) with a lamp in bright daylight? What is the joke?”
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گفت می‌جویم به هر سو آدمی ** که بود حی از حیات آن دمی 2890
- He replied, “I am searching everywhere for a man that is alive with the life inspired by that (Divine) Breath.
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هست مردی گفت این بازار پر ** مردمانند آخر ای دانای حر
- Is there a man in existence?” “This bazaar,” said the other, “is full: surely they are men, O noble sage.”
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گفت خواهم مرد بر جاده‌ی دو ره ** در ره خشم و به هنگام شره
- He answered, “I want (one who is) a man on the two-wayed road—in the way of anger and at the time of desire.
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وقت خشم و وقت شهوت مرد کو ** طالب مردی دوانم کو به کو
- Where is (one who is) a man at the moment of anger and at the moment of appetite? In search of (such) a man I am running from street to street.
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کو درین دو حال مردی در جهان ** تا فدای او کنم امروز جان
- Where in the world is (one who is) a man on these two occasions, that I may devote my life to him to-day?”
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گفت نادر چیز می‌جویی ولیک ** غافل از حکم و قضایی بین تو نیک 2895
- “You are seeking a rare thing,” said he; “but you take no heed of the (Divine) ordinance and destiny. Consider well!
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ناظر فرعی ز اصلی بی‌خبر ** فرع ماییم اصل احکام قدر
- You regard (only) the branch, you are unaware of the root: we are the branch, the ordinances of the (Divine) decree are the root.”
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چرخ گردان را قضا گمره کند ** صدعطارد را قضا ابله کند
- The (Divine) destiny causes the rolling sphere (of heaven) to lose its way; the (Divine) destiny makes a hundred Mercuries to be ignorant;
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تنگ گرداند جهان چاره را ** آب گرداند حدید و خاره را
- It makes the world of (our) contrivance to be straitened; it makes iron and hard rock to be (unresisting as) water.