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وای ازین پیران طفل ناادیب ** گشته از قوت بلای هر رقیب
- (But) alas for these childish undisciplined elders who in their strength have become an affliction to every guardian!
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چون سلاح و جهل جمع آید به هم ** گشت فرعونی جهان‌سوز از ستم
- When weapons and ignorance are brought together, he (such an one) becomes in his tyranny a world-consuming Pharaoh.
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شکر کن ای مرد درویش از قصور ** که ز فرعونی رهیدی وز کفور
- O poor man, thank God for thy deficiency (of means), for (thereby) thou art delivered from being a Pharaoh and ungrateful (for Divine blessings).
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شکر که مظلومی و ظالم نه‌ای ** آمن از فرعونی و هر فتنه‌ای 4725
- Thank God that thou art the oppressed, not the oppressor: thou art secure from acting like Pharaoh and from every temptation.
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اشکم تی لاف اللهی نزد ** که آتشش را نیست از هیزم مدد
- An empty belly never bragged of Divinity, for it has no faggots to feed its fire.
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اشکم خالی بود زندان دیو ** کش غم نان مانعست از مکر و ریو
- An empty belly is the Devil's prison, because anxiety for bread prevents him from plotting and deceiving.
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اشکم پر لوت دان بازار دیو ** تاجران دیو را در وی غریو
- Know that a belly full of viands is the Devil's market, where the Devil's merchants raise a clamour:
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تاجران ساحر لاشی‌فروش ** عقل‌ها را تیره کرده از خروش
- Merchants who practise sorcery and sell worthless goods and obfuscate (men's) wits by vociferation.
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خم روان کرده ز سحری چون فرس ** کرده کرباسی ز مهتاب و غلس 4730
- By a (trick of) sorcery they cause a vat to run like a horse and make a piece of linen out of moonshine and twilight.
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چون بریشم خاک را برمی‌تنند ** خاک در چشم ممیز می‌زنند
- They weave earth like silk and throw earth (dust) in the eyes of the discerning.