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ماه را با زفتی و زاری چه کار ** در پی خورشید پوید سایه‌وار 905
- What has the moon to do with stoutness and thinness? She runs at the heels of the sun, like a shadow.
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با قضا هر کو قراری می‌دهد ** ریش‌خند سبلت خود می‌کند
- Any one who offers to make a settlement with (the Divine) destiny is mocking at his own moustache.
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کاه‌برگی پیش باد آنگه قرار ** رستخیزی وانگهانی عزم‌کار
- A straw in the face of the wind, and then (the idea of) a settlement! A Resurrection (going on), and then the resolve to act (independently)!
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گربه در انبانم اندر دست عشق ** یک‌دمی بالا و یک‌دم پست عشق
- In the hand of Love I am like a cat in a bag, now lifted high and now flung low by Love.
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او همی‌گرداندم بر گرد سر ** نه به زیر آرام دارم نه زبر
- He is whirling me round His head: I have no rest either below or aloft.
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عاشقان در سیل تند افتاده‌اند ** بر قضای عشق دل بنهاده‌اند 910
- The lovers (of God) have fallen into a fierce torrent: they have set their hearts on (resigned themselves to) the ordinance of Love.
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هم‌چو سنگ آسیا اندر مدار ** روز و شب گردان و نالان بی‌قرار
- (They are) like the millstone turning, day and night, in (continual) revolution and moaning incessantly.
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گردشش بر جوی جویان شاهدست ** تا نگوید کس که آن جو راکدست
- Its turning is evidence for those who seek the River, lest any one should say that the River is motionless.
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گر نمی‌بینی تو جو را در کمین ** گردش دولاب گردونی ببین
- If thou seest not the hidden River, see the (perpetual) turning of the celestial water-wheel.
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چون قراری نیست گردون را ازو ** ای دل اختروار آرامی مجو
- Since the heavens have no rest from (being moved by) Him (Love), (be) thou, O heart, like a star, (and) seek no rest.