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از فدایی مردمان را حیرتیست ** هر یکی از ما فدای سیرتیست
- Men are amazed at the Fidá’í, (but) every one of us is a Fidá’í in his behaviour.
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ای خنک آنک فدا کردست تن ** بهر آن کارزد فدای آن شدن
- Oh, blest is he that has sacrificed his body for the sake of that for which it is worth while to sacrifice one's self.
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هر یکی چونک فدایی فنیست ** کاندر آن ره صرف عمر و کشتنیست
- Inasmuch as every one is devoted to some calling wherein he spends his life and is killed—
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کشتنی اندر غروبی یا شروق ** که نه شایق ماند آنگه نه مشوق 3545
- Is killed somewhere (either) in the West or in the East, at which time neither the desiring subject nor the desired object remains (in existence)—
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باری این مقبل فدای این فنست ** کاندرو صد زندگی در کشتنست
- After all, this fortunate man is devoted to the calling wherein a hundred lives are (gained) in being killed;
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عاشق و معشوق و عشقش بر دوام ** در دو عالم بهرمند و نیکنام
- Its lover and beloved and love are everlastingly prosperous and renowned in both worlds.
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یا کرامی ارحموا اهل الهوی ** شانهم ورد التوی بعد التوی
- O my generous friends, have pity on the votaries of passion: ’tis their business to go down to destruction after destruction.
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عفو کن ای میر بر سختی او ** در نگر در درد و بدبختی او
- (The people said), “O Amír, pardon his (the ascetic's) violence: consider his sorrow and ill-fortune,
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تا ز جرمت هم خدا عفوی کند ** زلتت را مغفرت در آکند 3550
- In order that God may pardon thy sins likewise and heap forgiveness on thy faults.
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تو ز غفلت بس سبو بشکستهای ** در امید عفو دل در بستهای
- Thou hast heedlessly broken many a jug and set thy heart on the hope of pardon.