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گر چنان گند آزتان ننگیختی ** جرعهای بر گورتان حق ریختی 4290
- If your greed had not raised such a stench, God would have poured a draught (of that Water) on your graves.”
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نه بگیرم گفت و پند آن حکیم ** دل نگردانم بهر طعنی سقیم
- Nay; I will accept the rede and counsel of the Sage (of Ghazna): I will not let my heart be sickened (wounded) by every taunt.
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مثل زدن در رمیدن کرهی اسپ از آب خوردن به سبب شخولیدن سایسان
- Parable of the foal's refusing to drink the water because of the bawling of the grooms.
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آنک فرمودست او اندر خطاب ** کره و مادر همیخوردند آب
- As he has said in his discourse, the foal and its mother were drinking the water.
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میشخولیدند هر دم آن نفر ** بهر اسپان که هلا هین آب خور
- Those persons (the grooms) were bawling incessantly at the horses, “Come on! Hey, drink!”
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آن شخولیدن به کره میرسید ** سر همی بر داشت و از خور میرمید
- (The noise of) that bawling reached the foal: it was lifting its head and refusing to drink.
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مادرش پرسید کای کره چرا ** میرمی هر ساعتی زین استقا 4295
- Its mother asked, “O foal, why art thou always refusing to drink this water?”
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گفت کره میشخولند این گروه ** ز اتفاق بانگشان دارم شکوه
- The foal said, “These people are bawling: I am afraid of the occurrence of their shouts.
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پس دلم میلرزد از جا میرود ** ز اتفاق نعره خوفم میرسد
- Therefore my heart is trembling and jumping: dread of the occurrence of the outcry is coming on me.”
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گفت مادر تا جهان بودست ازین ** کارافزایان بدند اندر زمین
- The mother said, “Ever since the world existed, there have been busybodies of this sort on the earth.”
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هین تو کار خویش کن ای ارجمند ** زود کایشان ریش خود بر میکنند
- Hark, do your own business, O worthy man: soon will they tear their beards (in sorrow).
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وقت تنگ و میرود آب فراخ ** پیش از آن کز هجر گردی شاخ شاخ 4300
- The time is restricted, and the abundant water is flowing away: (drink) ere, through being parted (from it), you fall to pieces.
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شهره کاریزیست پر آب حیات ** آب کش تا بر دمد از تو نبات
- There is a famous conduit, full of the Water of Life: draw the Water, in order that verdure may grow up from you.
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آب خضر از جوی نطق اولیا ** میخوریم ای تشنهی غافل بیا
- We are drinking the water of Khizr from the river of the speech of the saints: come, O heedless thirsty man!
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گر نبینی آب کورانه بفن ** سوی جو آور سبو در جوی زن
- If you do not see the water, artfully after the fashion of the blind bring the jug to the river, and dip it in the river.
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چون شنیدی کاندرین جو آب هست ** کور را تقلید باید کار بست
- Forasmuch as you have heard that there is water in this river-bed, (go and try): the blind man must practise conformity.
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جو فرو بر مشک آباندیش را ** تا گران بینی تو مشک خویش را 4305
- Carry down to the river the water-skin that has thoughts of the water, so that you may find your water-skin heavy.
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چون گران دیدی شوی تو مستدل ** رست از تقلید خشک آنگاه دل
- When you have found it heavy, you will be led to infer (the truth): at that moment your heart is delivered from dry conformity.
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گر نبیند کور آب جو عیان ** لیک داند چون سبو بیند گران
- If the blind man does not see the river-water ocularly, yet he knows, when he finds the jug heavy,
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که ز جو اندر سبو آبی برفت ** کین سبک بود و گران شد ز آب و زفت
- That some water has gone from the river into the jug; for this (jug) was light, and (now) it has become heavy and swollen with water;
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زانک هر بادی مرا در میربود ** باد مینربایدم ثقلم فزود
- “Because,” (he will say), “every wind used to sweep me away, (but now) the wind does not sweep me away: my weight has increased.”
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مر سفیهان را رباید هر هوا ** زانک نبودشان گرانی قوی 4310
- The foolish are swept away by every gust of desire, because they have no weight (ballast) of (intellectual) faculties.
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کشتی بیلنگر آمد مرد شر ** که ز باد کژ نیابد او حذر
- The wicked man is an anchorless ship, for he finds no precaution (means of defence) against the perverse (contrary) wind.
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لنگر عقلست عاقل را امان ** لنگری در یوزه کن از عاقلان
- To the intelligent man the anchor of intelligence is security: beg (such) an anchor from the intelligent.
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او مددهای خرد چون در ربود ** از خزینه در آن دریای جود
- Since he (the Sage) has borne away the succours (supplies) of intelligence from the pearl-treasury of that Sea of Bounty,
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زین چنین امداد دل پر فن شود ** بجهد از دل چشم هم روشن شود
- By such succours (replenishments) the heart is filled with knowledge: it (that knowledge) shoots from the heart, and the eye too becomes illuminated,