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همچنان مرد مجاهد نان دهد ** چون برو زد نور طاعت جان دهد
- Even so the (spiritual) warrior (first) gives away his bread; (but) when the light of devotion strikes on him, he gives away his life.
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پس زنی گفتش ز چشم عبهری ** که ز دستت رفت حسرت میخوری
- Then a woman said to her, “Art thou grieving for the jonquil-like eye that thou hast lost?”
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گفت حسرت میخورم که صد هزار ** دیده بودی تا همیکردم نثار
- “I am grieving,” she replied, “(to think) would that I had a hundred thousand eyes to lavish (on that Moon)!
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روزن چشمم ز مه ویران شدست ** لیک مه چون گنج در ویران نشست
- The window, (which is) mine eye, has been ruined by the Moon; but the Moon is seated (there) like the (buried) treasure in the ruin.
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کی گذارد گنج کین ویرانهام ** یاد آرد از رواق و خانهام 3090
- How should the treasure let this ruin of mine have (any regretful) memory of my porch and house?”
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نور روی یوسفی وقت عبور ** میفتادی در شباک هر قصور
- The light of Joseph's face, when he was passing by, used to fall on the latticed windows of every villa,
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پس بگفتندی درون خانه در ** یوسفست این سو به سیران و گذر
- And the people within the house would say, “Joseph is taking a walk in this quarter and passing by”;
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زانک بر دیوار دیدندی شعاع ** فهم کردندی پس اصحاب بقاع
- For they would see the radiance on the wall, and then the landlords (inmates) would understand (the cause of it).
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خانهای را کش دریچهست آن طرف ** دارد از سیران آن یوسف شرف
- The house that has its window in that direction is ennobled by that Joseph's walking for recreation.
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هین دریچه سوی یوسف باز کن ** وز شکافش فرجهای آغاز کن 3095
- Hark, open a window towards Joseph and begin to delight yourself by looking at him through the aperture.