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در چه دنیا فتادند این قرون ** عکس خود را دید هر یک چه درون
- These (worldly) generations fell into the well of the present world: every one saw in the well his own reflexion.
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از برون دان آنچ در چاهت نمود ** ورنه آن شیری که در چه شد فرود 3145
- Know that what appears to you in the well is (really) from outside; else you are (like) the lion that plunged into the well (and was drowned).
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برد خرگوشیش از ره کای فلان ** در تگ چاهست آن شیر ژیان
- A hare led him astray, saying, “O such-and-such, this furious lion (thy rival) is at the bottom of the well.
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در رو اندر چاه کین از وی بکش ** چون ازو غالب‌تری سر بر کنش
- Go into the well and wreak vengeance on him: tear off his head, since thou art mightier than he.”
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آن مقلد سخره‌ی خرگوش شد ** از خیال خویشتن پر جوش شد
- That (blind) follower of authority was subjugated by the hare: he was filled with boiling (fury) by his own fancy.
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او نگفت این نقش داد آب نیست ** این به جز تقلیب آن قلاب نیست
- He did not say, “This image is not produced by the water: this is not (produced) by anything except the changing activity of the (Divine) Changer.”
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تو هم از دشمن چو کینی می‌کشی ** ای زبون شش غلط در هر ششی 3150
- So when you, O slave to the six (directions), wreak vengeance on your enemy you are in error concerning all the six.
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آن عداوت اندرو عکس حقست ** کز صفات قهر آنجا مشتقست
- That enmity in him (your enemy) is reflected from God, for it is derived from the (Divine) attributes of Wrath (which are manifested) there;
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وآن گنه در وی ز جنس جرم تست ** باید آن خو را ز طبع خویش شست
- And that sin in him is homogeneous with your sin: you must wash that (evil) disposition out of your own nature.
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خلق زشتت اندرو رویت نمود ** که ترا او صفحه‌ی آیینه بود
- Your evil character showed itself to you in him because he was (like) the surface of a mirror to you.