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یوسفان چنگال در دلوش زده ** رسته از چاه و شه مصری شده
- The Josephs cling to his bucket, escape from the well, and become kings of Egypt.
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دلوهای دیگر از چه آب‌جو ** دلو او فارغ ز آب اصحاب‌جو
- The other buckets seek water from the well: his bucket has no concern with the water, it seeks (only) friends (in trouble).
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دلوها غواص آب از بهر قوت ** دلو او قوت و حیات جان حوت
- The (other) buckets plunge into the water for food: his bucket is the food and life of the soul of the fish.
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دلوها وابسته‌ی چرخ بلند ** دلو او در اصبعین زورمند 4575
- The (other) buckets are attached to the lofty wheel (of Fortune): his bucket is (held) in two Almighty fingers.
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دلو چه و حبل چه و چرخ چی ** این مثال بس رکیکست ای اچی
- What bucket and what cord and what wheel? This is a very weak comparison, O pasha.
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از کجا آرم مثالی بی‌شکست ** کفو آن نه آید و نه آمدست
- (But) whence shall I get a comparison that is without frailty? One to match him (the knower of God) will not come, and never has come, (to hand).
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صد هزاران مرد پنهان در یکی ** صد کمان و تیر درج ناوکی
- (He is) a hundred thousand men concealed in a single man, a hundred bows and arrows enclosed in a single blowpipe;
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ما رمیت اذ رمیتی فتنه‌ای ** صد هزاران خرمن اندر حفنه‌ای
- A (type of) thou didst not throw when thou threwest, a temptation (for the ignorant), a hundred thousand stacks (of grain) in a handful.
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آفتابی در یکی ذره نهان ** ناگهان آن ذره بگشاید دهان 4580
- (He is) a sun hidden in a mote: suddenly that mote opens its mouth (and reveals the sun).
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ذره ذره گردد افلاک و زمین ** پیش آن خورشید چون جست از کمین
- The heavens and the earth crumble to atoms before that Sun when he springs forth from ambush.