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شکر کین زر قلب پیدا شد کنون ** پیش از آنک عمر بگذشتی فزون
- Thanks (to God) that this gold was shown to be base now, before too much of my life had passed.
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قلب ماندی تا ابد در گردنم ** حیف بودی عمر ضایع کردنم
- The base coin would have remained (as a shackle) on my neck for ever: to waste my life (thus) would have been an iniquity.
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چون بگهتر قلبی او رو نمود ** پای خود زو وا کشم من زود زود
- Since its (the coin's) baseness has been revealed earlier (in good time), I will step back from it very quickly.”
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یار تو چون دشمنی پیدا کند ** گر حقد و رشک او بیرون زند
- When your friend displays enmity (and when) the itch of his hatred and jealousy shoots forth (manifests itself),
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تو از آن اعراض او افغان مکن ** خویشتن را ابله و نادان مکن 1515
- Do not bewail his aversion, do not make yourself (do not let yourself behave as) a fool and ignoramus;
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بلک شکر حق کن و نان بخش کن ** که نگشتی در جوال او کهن
- Nay, thank God and give bread (alms), (in gratitude) that you have not become old (and rotten) in his sack,
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از جوالش زود بیرون آمدی ** تا بجویی یار صدق سرمدی
- (But) have quickly come out of his sack to seek the true Eternal Friend,
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نازنین یاری که بعد از مرگ تو ** رشتهی یاری او گردد سه تو
- The delectable Friend whose friendship's cord becomes threefold (thrice as strong) after thy death.
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آن مگر سلطان بود شاه رفیع ** یا بود مقبول سلطان و شفیع
- That friend, in sooth, may be the (Divine) Sultan and exalted King, or he may be one accepted of the Sultan and one who intercedes (with Him).
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رستی از قلاب و سالوس و دغل ** غر او دیدی عیان پیش از اجل 1520
- You are (now) delivered from the false coiner and (his) hypocrisy and fraud: you have seen his tumour (imposture) plainly before death.
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این جفای خلق با تو در جهان ** گر بدانی گنج زر آمد نهان
- If you understood (aright) this injustice shown towards you by the people in the world, it is a hidden treasure of gold.
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خلق را با تو چنین بدخو کنند ** تا ترا ناچار رو آن سو کنند
- The people are made to be thus evil-natured towards you, that your face may inevitably be turned Yonder.
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این یقین دان که در آخر جملهشان ** خصم گردند و عدو و سرکشان
- Know this for sure that in the end all of them will become adversaries and foes and rebels.
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تو بمانی با فغان اندر لحد ** لا تذرنی فرد خواهان از احد
- You will be left in the tomb, lamenting and beseeching the One (God), (and crying), “Do not leave me (here) alone!
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ای جفاات به ز عهد وافیان ** هم ز داد تست شهد وافیان 1525
- O Thou whose harshness is better than the troth of the faithful, the honey (kindness) of the faithful is also from Thy bounty.”
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بشنو از عقل خود ای انباردار ** گندم خود را به ارض الله سپار
- Hearken to your own reason, O possessor of a granary, and commit your wheat to the earth of Allah,
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تا شود آمن ز دزد و از شپش ** دیو را با دیوچه زوتر بکش
- That it may be safe from thieves and weevils. Kill the Devil with the wood-fretter (of reason) as quickly as possible;
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کو همی ترساندت هم دم ز فقر ** همچو کبکش صید کن ای نره صقر
- For he is always frightening you with (the threat of) poverty: make him your prey like a partridge, O valiant hawk.
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باز سلطان عزیزی کامیار ** ننگ باشد که کند کبکش شکار
- It would be a shame for the falcon of the mighty and fortunate Sultan to be made a prey by the partridge.
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بس وصیت کرد و تخم وعظ کاشت ** چون زمینشان شوره بد سودی نداشت 1530
- He (the father) gave many injunctions (to his sons) and sowed the seed of exhortation, (but) as their soil was nitrous (barren), ’twas of no avail.
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گرچه ناصح را بود صد داعیه ** پند را اذنی بباید واعیه
- Although the admonisher have a hundred appeals, counsel demands a retentive ear.
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تو به صد تلطیف پندش میدهی ** او ز پندت میکند پهلو تهی
- You counsel him (the heedless man) with a hundred courtesies, and he turns aside from your counsel.
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یک کس نامستمع ز استیز و رد ** صد کس گوینده را عاجز کند
- A single person who obstinately refuses to listen will baffle a hundred (eloquent) speakers.
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ز انبیا ناصحتر و خوش لهجهتر ** کی بود کی گرفت دمشان در حجر
- Who should be more persuasive in counselling and sweeter-tongued than the prophets, whose words made an impression (even) on stones?
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زانچ کوه و سنگ درکار آمدند ** مینشد بدبخت را بگشاده بند 1535
- (Yet) the bonds of the ill-fated (infidel) were not being loosed by that whereby mountain and stone were moved.