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مرد گفتش گوشت کو مهمان رسید ** پیش مهمان لوت میباید کشید
- The man said to her, “Where is the meat? The guest has arrived: one must set nice food before a guest.”
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گفت زن این گربه خورد آن گوشت را ** گوشت دیگر خر اگر باشد هلا
- “This cat has eaten the meat,” she replied: “hey, go and buy some more meat if you can!”
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گفت ای ایبک ترازو را بیار ** گربه را من بر کشم اندر عیار 3415
- He said (to the servant), “O Aybak, fetch the balance: I will weigh the cat.
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بر کشیدش بود گربه نیم من ** پس بگفت آن مرد کای محتال زن
- He weighed her. The cat was half a mann. Then the man said, “O deceitful wife,
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گوشت نیم من بود و افزون یک ستیر ** هست گربه نیممن هم ای ستیر
- The meat was half a mann and one sitír over; the cat is just half a mann, my lady.
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این اگر گربهست پس آن گوشت کو ** ور بود این گوشت گربه کو بجو
- If this is the cat, then where is the meat? Or, if this is the meat, where is the cat? Search (for her)!”
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بایزید ار این بود آن روح چیست ** ور وی آن روحست این تصویر کیست
- If Báyazíd is this (body), what is that spirit? And if he is that spirit, who is this (bodily) image?
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حیرت اندر حیرتست ای یار من ** این نه کار تست و نه هم کار من 3420
- ’Tis bewilderment on bewilderment. O my friend, (the solution of) this (problem) is not your affair, nor is it mine either.
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هر دو او باشد ولیک از ریع زرع ** دانه باشد اصل و آن که پره فرع
- He is both (spirit and body), but in the corn-crop the grain is fundamental, while the stalk is derivative.
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حکمت این اضداد را با هم ببست ** ای قصاب این گردران با گردنست
- (The Divine) Wisdom has bound these contraries together: O butcher, this fleshy thigh-bone goes along with the neck.
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روح بیقالب نداند کار کرد ** قالبت بیجان فسرده بود و سرد
- The spirit cannot function without the body; your body is frozen (inanimate) and cold (inert) without the spirit.
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قالبت پیدا و آن جانت نهان ** راست شد زین هر دو اسباب جهان
- Your body is visible, while your spirit is hidden from view: the business of the world is conducted by means of them both.
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خاک را بر سر زنی سر نشکند ** آب را بر سر زنی در نشکند 3425
- If you throw earth at (some one's) head, his head will not be broken; if you throw water at his head, it will not be broken.
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گر تو میخواهی که سر را بشکنی ** آب را و خاک را بر هم زنی
- If you wish to break his head, you bring the earth and the water into contact with each other (and make a lump of clay).
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چون شکستی سر رود آبش به اصل ** خاک سوی خاک آید روز فصل
- When you have broken your head, its water (the spirit) returns to its source, and earth returns to earth on the day of separation.
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حکمتی که بود حق را ز ازدواج ** گشت حاصل از نیاز و از لجاج
- The providential purpose that God had—namely, humble supplication or obstinate contumacy—was fulfilled by means of the marriage (of body and spirit).
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باشد آنگه ازدواجات دگر ** لا سمع اذن و لا عین بصر
- Then (afterwards) there are other marriages that no ear hath heard and no eye hath seen.
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گر شنیدی اذن کی ماندی اذن ** یا کجا کردی دگر ضبط سخن 3430
- If the ear had heard, how should the ear have remained (in action) or how should it have apprehended words any more?
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گر بدیدی برف و یخ خورشید را ** از یخی برداشتی اومید را
- If the snow and ice were to behold the sun, they would despair of (retaining their) iciness;
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آب گشتی بیعروق و بیگره ** ز آب داود هوا کردی زره
- They would become water (formless and) devoid of roots and knobs: the air, David-like, would make of the water a mail-coat (of ripples),
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پس شدی درمان جان هر درخت ** هر درختی از قدومش نیکبخت
- And then it (the water) would become a life-giving medicine for every tree: every tree (would be made) fortunate by its advent.
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آن یخی بفسرده در خود مانده ** لا مساسی با درختان خوانده
- (But) the frozen ice that remains (locked) within itself cries to the trees,Touch me not!
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لیس یالف لیس یلف جسمه ** لیس الا شح نفس قسمه 3435
- Its body makes none its friend nor is it made a friend by any: its portion is naught but miserly selfishness.
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نیست ضایع زو شود تازه جگر ** لیک نبود پیک و سلطان خضر
- It is not wasted (entirely), the heart is refreshed by it; but it is not the herald and lord of (the vernal) greenery.
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ای ایاز استارهی تو بس بلند ** نیست هر برجی عبورش را پسند
- “O Ayáz, thou art a very exalted star: not every sign of the zodiac is worthy of its transit.