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ور کنی خدمت نخوانی یک کتاب ** علمهای نادره یابی ز جیب
- But if you serve God and do not read a single book, you will learn rare sciences from your (own) bosom.
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شد ز جیب آن کف موسی ضو فشان ** کان فزون آمد ز ماه آسمان
- The hand of Moses was spreading from his bosom a radiance that surpassed the moon in the sky,
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کانک میجستی ز چرخ با نهیب ** سر بر آوردستت ای موسی ز جیب
- Saying (implicitly), “That which thou wert seeking from the terrible celestial sphere hath uprisen, O Moses, from thy own bosom,
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تا بدانی که آسمانهای سمی ** هست عکس مدرکات آدمی 1935
- In order that thou mayst know that the lofty heavens are the reflexion of the perceptive (rational) faculties of Man.”
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نی که اول دست برد آن مجید ** از دو عالم پیشتر عقل آفرید
- Is it not (the case) that the hand of the Glorious God created Reason first (of all), before (the creation of) the two worlds?
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این سخن پیدا و پنهانست بس ** که نباشد محرم عنقا مگس
- This discourse is clear (to some) and exceedingly recondite (to others), for the fly is not intimate with the ‘Anqá.
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باز سوی قصه باز آ ای پسر ** قصهی گنج و فقیر آور به سر
- O son, return once more to the tale: bring the tale of the treasure and the fakir to an end.
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تمامی قصهی آن فقیر و نشان جای آن گنج
- Conclusion of the Story of the fakir and (a description of) the signs indicating the position of the treasure.
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اندر آن رقعه نبشته بود این ** که برون شهر گنجی دان دفین
- This is what was written in the scroll—“Know that outside of the town a treasure is buried.
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آن فلان قبه که در وی مشهدست ** پشت او در شهر و در در فدفدست 1940
- (Go to) such-and-such a domed building in which there is a martyr's shrine, with its back to the town and its gate towards the desert.
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پشت با وی کن تو رو در قبله آر ** وانگهان از قوس تیری بر گذار
- Turn your back to it and face the qibla (Mecca) and then let loose an arrow from your bow.
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چون فکندی تیر از قوس ای سعاد ** بر کن آن موضع که تیرت اوفتاد
- When you have shot the arrow from your bow, O fortunate one, dig up the place where your arrow fell.”
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پس کمان سخت آورد آن فتی ** تیر پرانید در صحن فضا
- Thereupon the youth fetched a strongbow and let fly an arrow into the expanse of (aerial) space,
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زو تبر آورد و بیل او شاد شاد ** کند آن موضع که تیرش اوفتاد
- And quickly and with great joy brought a pick-axe and mattock and dug up the spot where his arrow had fallen;
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کند شد هم او و هم بیل و تبر ** خود ندید از گنج پنهانی اثر 1945
- (But) both he and the mattock and pick-axe were worn out (in vain efforts), and he found not even a trace of the hidden treasure.
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همچنین هر روز تیر انداختی ** لیک جای گنج را نشناختی
- Every day in like fashion he was shooting arrows, but never getting to know the situation of the treasure.
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چونک این را پیشه کرد او بر دوام ** فجفجی در شهر افتاد و عوام
- Since he made this his continual practice, a whispered rumour arose in the city and (among) the people.
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فاش شدن خبر این گنج و رسیدن به گوش پادشاه
- How the news of this treasure became known and reached the ears of the king.
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پس خبر کردند سلطان را ازین ** آن گروهی که بدند اندر کمین
- Then the party (of informers) who lay in ambush gave information of this to the king,
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عرضه کردند آن سخن را زیردست ** که فلانی گنجنامه یافتست
- And submitted the matter (to him) secretly, saying that such-and-such an one had found a treasure-scroll.
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چون شنید این شخص کین با شه رسید ** جز که تسلیم و رضا چاره ندید 1950
- When this person (the fakir) heard that it had come to (the knowledge of) the king, he saw no remedy but resignation and acquiescence;
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پیش از آنک اشکنجه بیند زان قباد ** رقعه را آن شخص پیش او نهاد
- (So), ere he should suffer (torture on) the rack by order of the Emperor, that person laid the note (of the treasure) before him,
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گفت تا این رقعه را یابیدهام ** گنج نه و رنج بیحد دیدهام
- Saying, “(Ever) since I found this scroll, I have seen no treasure but (only) infinite trouble.
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خود نشد یک حبه از گنج آشکار ** لیک پیچیدم بسی من همچو مار
- Not even a single mite of treasure has been discovered, but I have writhed very much, like a snake.
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مدت ماهی چنینم تلخکام ** که زیان و سود این بر من حرام
- During a (whole) month I have been in bitter distress like this, for loss or gain (accruing) from this (treasure-scroll) is forbidden to me.
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بوک بختت بر کند زین کان غطا ** ای شه پیروزجنگ و دزگشا 1955
- Maybe thy fortune will disclose (to thee) this mine (of riches), O king (who art) victorious in war and the conqueror of fortresses.”
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مدت شش ماه و افزون پادشاه ** تیر میانداخت و برمیکند چاه
- For six long months and more the king shot arrows and dug pits (where the arrows fell).