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تو مگو آن مدح را من کی خورم ** از طمع میگوید او پی میبرم
- Do not say, “How should I swallow that praise? He is speaking from desire (for reward): I am on his track (and see quite well what he is after).”
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مادحت گر هجو گوید بر ملا ** روزها سوزد دلت ز آن سوزها
- If your belauder should satirise you in public, your heart would burn for (many) days on account of those scorches (of vituperation).
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گر چه دانی کاو ز حرمان گفت آن ** کان طمع که داشت از تو شد زیان
- Although you know that he (only) said it in disappointment because the hopes he had of you brought him no gain,
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آن اثر میماندت در اندرون ** در مدیح این حالتت هست آزمون 1860
- (Yet) the effect thereof is remaining within you. The same experience happens to you in the case of praise.
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آن اثر هم روزها باقی بود ** مایهی کبر و خداع جان شود
- The effect of that too lasts for many days and becomes a source of arrogance and deception of the soul,
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لیک ننماید چو شیرین است مدح ** بد نماید ز آن که تلخ افتاد قدح
- But it does not show itself, because praise is sweet; (in the case of blame) the evil shows itself, because blame is bitter.
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همچو مطبوخ است و حب کان را خوری ** تا به دیری شورش و رنج اندری
- It (blame) is like (bitter) decoctions and pills which you swallow and for a long time you are in disturbance and pain,
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ور خوری حلوا بود ذوقش دمی ** این اثر چون آن نمیپاید همی
- Whereas, if you eat halwá (sweetmeat), its taste is momentary: this effect, like the other, is not enduring for ever.
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چون نمیپاید همیپاید نهان ** هر ضدی را تو به ضد او بدان 1865
- Since it does not endure (perceptibly), it endures imperceptibly: recognise every opposite by means of its opposite.
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چون شکر پاید نهان تاثیر او ** بعد حینی دمل آرد نیش جو
- When the effect of sugar endures (remains latent), after a while it produces boils that call for the lancet.
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نفس از بس مدحها فرعون شد ** کن ذلیل النفس هونا لا تسد
- The fleshly soul was made a Pharaoh by (receiving) many praises: be lowly of spirit through meekness, do not domineer.
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تا توانی بنده شو سلطان مباش ** زخم کش چون گوی شو چوگان مباش
- So far as you can, become a slave, do not be a monarch. Suffer blows: become like the ball, do not be the bat.
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ور نه چون لطفت نماند وین جمال ** از تو آید آن حریفان را ملال
- Otherwise, when this elegance and beauty remains with you no more, you will be loathed by those companions.
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آن جماعت کت همیدادند ریو ** چون ببینندت بگویندت که دیو 1870
- The set of people who used to flatter you deceitfully, when they behold you will call you a devil.
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جمله گویندت چو بینندت به در ** مردهای از گور خود بر کرد سر
- When they see you at their doors, they all will cry, “Truly a dead man has risen from the grave.”
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همچو امرد که خدا نامش کنند ** تا بدین سالوس در دامش کنند
- (You will be) like the beardless youth whom they address as “Lord” that by this hypocrisy they may make entrap him.
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چون که در بد نامی آمد ریش او ** دیو را ننگ آید از تفتیش او
- As soon as he has grown a beard in infamy, the Devil is ashamed to search after him.
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دیو سوی آدمی شد بهر شر ** سوی تو ناید که از دیوی بتر
- The Devil approaches Man for the sake of wickedness: he does not approach you because you are worse than the Devil.
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تا تو بودی آدمی دیو از پیات ** میدوید و میچشانید او میات 1875
- So long as you were a man the Devil was running at your heels and bidding you taste (his) wine.
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چون شدی در خوی دیوی استوار ** میگریزد از تو دیو نابکار
- Since you have become confirmed in devilry, the good-for-nothing Devil is fleeing from you!
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آن که اندر دامنت آویخت او ** چون چنین گشتی ز تو بگریخت او
- He who (formerly) clung to your skirt fled from you when you became like this.
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تفسیر ما شاء الله کان
- Explanation of (the Tradition) “Whatsoever God wills cometh to pass.”
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این همه گفتیم لیک اندر بسیچ ** بیعنایات خدا هیچیم هیچ
- We have spoken all these words, but in preparing ourselves (for the journey before us) we are naught, naught without the favours of God.
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بیعنایات حق و خاصان حق ** گر ملک باشد سیاه استش ورق
- Without the favours of God and God's elect ones, angel though he be, his page is black.
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ای خدا ای فضل تو حاجت روا ** با تو یاد هیچ کس نبود روا 1880
- O God, O Thou whose bounty fulfils (every) need, it is not allowable to mention any one beside Thee.
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این قدر ارشاد تو بخشیدهای ** تا بدین بس عیب ما پوشیدهای
- This amount of guidance Thou hast bestowed (upon us); till this (present time) Thou hast covered up many a fault of ours.