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جمله اجزای تنش خصم ویند ** کز بهاری لافد ایشان در دیند 750
- All the members of his body are his adversaries, for he prates of spring (while) they are in December.
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لاف وا داد کرمها می‌کند ** شاخ رحمت را ز بن بر می‌کند
- Vain talk repels acts of kindness and tears off the bough of pity from the trunk of the tree.
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راستی پیش آر یا خاموش کن ** وانگهان رحمت ببین و نوش کن
- Bring forward (practise) honesty, or else be silent, and then behold pity and enjoy it.
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آن شکم خصم سبال او شده ** دست پنهان در دعا اندر زده
- That belly became the adversary of his moustache and secretly had recourse to prayer,
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کای خدا رسوا کن این لاف لام ** تا بجنبد سوی ما رحم کرام
- Crying, “O God, expose this idle brag of the base, in order that the pity of the noble may be moved towards me.”
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مستجاب آمد دعای آن شکم ** شورش حاجت بزد بیرون علم 755
- The belly's prayer was answered: the ardency of need put out a flag.
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گفت حق گر فاسقی و اهل صنم ** چون مرا خوانی اجابتها کنم
- God hath said, “Though thou be a profligate and idolater, I will answer when thou callest Me.”
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تو دعا را سخت گیر و می‌شخول ** عاقبت برهاندت از دست غول
- Do thou cleave fast unto prayer and ever cry out: in the end it will deliver thee from the hands of the ghoul.
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چون شکم خود را به حضرت در سپرد ** گربه آمد پوست آن دنبه ببرد
- When the belly committed itself to God, the cat came and carried off the skin of that sheep's tail.
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از پس گربه دویدند او گریخت ** کودک از ترس عتابش رنگ ریخت
- They ran after the cat, (but) she fled. The child (of the braggart), from fear of his scolding, changed colour (turned pale).
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آمد اندر انجمن آن طفل خرد ** آب روی مرد لافی را ببرد 760
- The little child came into (the midst of) the company and took away the prestige of the boastful man.
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گفت آن دنبه که هر صبحی بدان ** چرب می‌کردی لبان و سبلتان
- It said, “The sheep's tail with which every morning you greased your lips and moustaches—
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گربه آمد ناگهانش در ربود ** بس دویدیم و نکرد آن جهد سود
- The cat came and suddenly snatched it away: I ran hard, but the effort was of no use.”
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خنده آمد حاضران را از شگفت ** رحمهاشان باز جنبیدن گرفت
- Those who were present laughed from astonishment, and their feelings of pity began to be moved again.
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دعوتش کردند و سیرش داشتند ** تخم رحمت در زمینش کاشتند
- They invited him (to eat) and kept him full-fed, they sowed the seed of pity in his soil.
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او چو ذوق راستی دید از کرام ** بی تکبر راستی را شد غلام 765
- When he had tasted honesty from the noble, he without arrogance (humbly) became devoted to honesty.
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دعوی طاوسی کردن آن شغال کی در خم صباغ افتاده بود
- How the jackal which had fallen into the dyer’s vat pretended to be a peacock.
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و آن شغال رنگ‌رنگ آمد نهفت ** بر بناگوش ملامت‌گر بکفت
- (In the fashion) that parti-colored jackal came secretly and tapped on the lobe of the rebuker’s ear.
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بنگر آخر در من و در رنگ من ** یک صنم چون من ندارد خود شمن
- “Prithee look at me and at my colour: truly the idolater possesses no idol like me.
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چون گلستان گشته‌ام صد رنگ و خوش ** مر مرا سجده کن از من سر مکش
- Like the flower-garden I have become many-hued and lovely: bow in homage to me, do not withdraw from me (in aversion).
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کر و فر و آب و تاب و رنگ بین ** فخر دنیا خوان مرا و رکن دین
- Behold my glory and splendour and sheen and radiance and colour! Call me the Pride of the World and the Pillar of the Religion!
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مظهر لطف خدایی گشته‌ام ** لوح شرح کبریایی گشته‌ام 770
- I have become the theatre of the Divine Grace, I have become the tablet on which the Divine Majesty is unfolded.
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ای شغالان هین مخوانیدم شغال ** کی شغالی را بود چندین جمال
- O jackals, take heed, do not call me a jackal: how should a jackal have so much beauty?”
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آن شغالان آمدند آنجا بجمع ** همچو پروانه به گرداگرد شمع
- Those jackals came thither en masse, like moths around the candle.
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پس چه خوانیمت بگو ای جوهری ** گفت طاوس نر چون مشتری
- “Say then, what shall we call thee, O creature of (pure) substance?” He replied, “ A peacock (brilliant) as Jupiter.”
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پس بگفتندش که طاوسان جان ** جلوه‌ها دارند اندر گلستان
- Then they said to him, “The spiritual peacocks have displays (with the Beloved) in the Rose-garden: