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گر دو حرف صدق گویی ای فلان ** گفت تیره در تبع گردد روان
- If you utter two true words, O such-and-such, the dark (false) speech will begin to flow in their train.
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این نخواندی کالکلام ای مستهام ** فی شجون حره جر الکلام
- Haven’t you read that (your) talk concerning (your) griefs, O frenzied (lover) is drawn along by the draw (ride) of talk?
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هین مشو شارع در آن حرف رشد ** که سخن زو مر سخن را می‌کشد
- Beware, do not begin (to speak) those right words, for words quickly draw (other) words (after them).
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نیست در ضبطت چو بگشادی دهان ** از پی صافی شود تیره روان 1600
- When you have (once) opened your mouth, they are not in your control: the dark(falsehood) flows on the heels of the pure (truth).
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آنک معصوم ره وحی خداست ** چون همه صافست بگشاید رواست
- He (alone) may open (his mouth) who is preserved (from error) in the way of (Divine) inspiration; ‘tis permissible, since he is entirely pure;
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زانک ما ینطق رسول بالهوی ** کی هوا زاید ز معصوم خدا
- For a prophet does not speak from self-will: how should self-will proceed from him who is preserved by God?
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خویشتن را ساز منطیقی ز حال ** تا نگردی هم‌چو من سخره‌ی مقال
- Make yourself one that speaks eloquently from ecstatic feeling, lest you become a slave to argumentation like me.”
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سال کردن آن صوفی قاضی را
- How the Súfi questioned the Cadi.
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گفت صوفی چون ز یک کانست زر ** این چرا نفعست و آن دیگر ضرر
- The Súfi said, “Since (all) the gold is from a single Mine, why is this beneficial and that other harmful?
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چونک جمله از یکی دست آمدست ** این چرا هوشیار و آن مست آمدست 1605
- Since the whole (Creation) has come from a single Hand, why has this one come sober and that one intoxicated?
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چون ز یک دریاست این جوها روان ** این چرا نوش است و آن زهر دهان
- Since (all) these rivers flow from a single Sea, why is this one honey and that one poison in the mouth?