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جز کسی که بر سرش اقبال ریخت ** کو رها کرد آب و در آتش گریخت
- (None would go) except him upon whom felicity was shed, so that he abandoned the water and took refuge in the fire.
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کرده ذوق نقد را معبود خلق ** لاجرم زین لعب مغبون بود خلق
- The people made the pleasure that was actually present their object of worship; consequently the people were swindled by this game.
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جوق‌جوق وصف صف از حرص و شتاب ** محترز ز آتش گریزان سوی آب
- Troop by troop and rank by rank, (they were) on their guard against the fire and fleeing greedily and in haste towards the water.
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لاجرم ز آتش برآوردند سر ** اعتبارالاعتبار ای بی‌خبر
- Of necessity, they lifted up their heads (emerged) from (amidst) the fire. Take warning, take warning, O heedless man!
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بانگ می‌زد آتش ای گیجان گول ** من نیم آتش منم چشمه‌ی قبول 435
- The fire was crying, ‘O crazy fools, I am not fire, I am a delectable fountain.
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چشم‌بندی کرده‌اند ای بی‌نظر ** در من آی و هیچ مگریز از شرر
- A spell has been cast on thine eyes, O sightless one: come into me and never flee from the sparks.
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ای خلیل اینجا شرار و دود نیست ** جز که سحر و خدعه‌ی نمرود نیست
- O (thou who art as) Khalíl (Abraham), here are no sparks and smoke: ’tis naught but the sorcery and deceit of Nimrod.
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چون خلیل حق اگر فرزانه‌ای ** آتش آب تست و تو پروانه‌ای
- If, like the Friend of God, thou art wise, the fire is thy water, and thou art the moth.’”
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جان پروانه همی‌دارد ندا ** کای دریغا صد هزارم پر بدی
- The soul of the moth is always crying, “Oh, alas, would that I had a hundred thousand wings,
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تا همی سوزید ز آتش بی‌امان ** کوری چشم و دل نامحرمان 440
- That they might be consumed without mercy by the fire, to the blindness (confusion) of the eyes and hearts of the profane!