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در نبی ان استطعتم فانفذوا ** این سخن با جن و انس آمد ز هو
- In the Qur’án (is the text), “If ye have the power, pass beyond”: these words came from Him (God) to the Jinn and mankind.
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گفت منفذ نیست از گردونتان ** جز به سلطان و به وحی آسمان
- He said, “There is no way for you to pass beyond the sky save by (Divine) authority and by inspiration from Heaven.”
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گر ز صندوقی به صندوقی رود ** او سمایی نیست صندوقی بود 4515
- If he (any one) go from chest to chest, he is not of Heaven, he is of the chest (the lower world).
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فرجه صندوق نو نو مسکرست ** در نیابد کو به صندوق اندرست
- The pleasure of changing his chest (only) stupefies him anew: he does not perceive that he is inside the chest.
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گر نشد غره بدین صندوق‌ها ** هم‌چو قاضی جوید اطلاق و رها
- If he is not deluded by (all) these chests, he seeks release and deliverance, like the cadi.
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آنک داند این نشانش آن شناس ** کو نباشد بی‌فغان و بی‌هراس
- Know that the mark of one who apprehends this is his crying for help and being in terror.
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هم‌چو قاضی باشد او در ارتعاد ** کی برآید یک دمی از جانش شاد
- Like the cadi, he will be quaking (with fear): how should a breath of joy rise from his soul?
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آمدن نایب قاضی میان بازار و خریداری کردن صندوق را از جوحی الی آخره
- The arrival of the cadi's deputy in the bazaar and his purchase of the chest from Júhí, etc.
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نایب آمد گفت صندوقت به چند ** گفت نهصد بیشتر زر می‌دهند 4520
- The deputy arrived and asked, “How much (do you want) for your chest?” “They are offering nine hundred pieces of gold and more,” said he,
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من نمی‌آیم فروتر از هزار ** گر خریداری گشا کیسه بیار
- “(But) I will not come lower than a thousand: if you intend to buy, open your purse and produce (the money).”
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گفت شرمی دار ای کوته‌نمد ** قیمت صندوق خود پیدا بود
- He replied, “Have some shame, you in the short felt frock! The value of the chest is self-evident.”