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سنبل و لاله و سپرغم نیز هم ** با هزاران ناز و نفرت خوردهام 920
- I have eaten hyacinth and anemone and sweet basil too with a thousand disdains and disgusts.”
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گفت آری لاف میزن لافلاف ** در غریبی بس توان گفتن گزاف
- He (the donkey) said, “Yes; boast and boast and boast away! In a strange country one can utter many an idle brag.”
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گفت نافم خود گواهی میدهد ** منتی بر عود و عنبر مینهد
- He (the gazelle) replied, “Truly my navel (musk-gland) bears (me) witness: it confers a (great) favour (even) on aloes-wood and ambergris.
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لیک آن را کی شنود صاحبمشام ** بر خر سرگینپرست آن شد حرام
- But who will hearken to (perceive) that? (Only) he that hath the (spiritual) sense of smell. ’Tis taboo for the donkey addicted to dung.
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خر کمیز خر ببوید بر طریق ** مشک چون عرضه کنم با این فریق
- The donkey smells donkey's urine on the road: how should I offer musk to (creatures of) this class?”
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بهر این گفت آن نبی مستجیب ** رمز الاسلام فیالدنیا غریب 925
- Hence the Prophet, (who was always) responsive (to the Divine command), spake, the parable, “Islam is a stranger in this world,”
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زانک خویشانش هم از وی میرمند ** گرچه با ذاتش ملایک همدمند
- Because even his (the true Moslem's) kinsfolk are fleeing from him, though the angels are in harmony with his essence.
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صورتش را جنس میبینند انام ** لیک از وی مینیابند آن مشام
- The people deem his (outward) form homogeneous (with theirs), but they do not perceive in him that (spiritual) fragrance.
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همچو شیری در میان نقش گاو ** دور میبینش ولی او را مکاو
- (He is) like a lion in the shape of a cow: behold him from afar but do not investigate him!
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ور بکاوی ترک گاو تن بگو ** که بدرد گاو را آن شیرخو
- And if you investigate, take leave of the cow, (which is) the body; for that lion natured one will tear the cow to pieces.