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کل شی‌‌ء قاله غیر المفیق ** إن تکلف أو تصلف لا یلیق
- Everything that is said by one who has not returned to consciousness, if he constrains himself or boastfully exaggerates, is unseemly.
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من چه گویم یک رگم هشیار نیست ** شرح آن یاری که او را یار نیست 130
- How should I—not a vein of mine is sensible—describe that Friend who hath no peer?
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شرح این هجران و این خون جگر ** این زمان بگذار تا وقت دگر
- The description of this severance and this heart's blood do thou at present leave over till another time.”
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قال أطعمنی فإنی جائع ** و اعتجل فالوقت سیف قاطع
- He said: “Feed me, for I am hungry, and make haste, for Time is a cutting sword.
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صوفی ابن الوقت باشد ای رفیق ** نیست فردا گفتن از شرط طریق
- The Súfí is the son of the (present) time, O comrade: it is not the rule of the Way to say ‘To-morrow.’
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تو مگر خود مرد صوفی نیستی ** هست را از نسیه خیزد نیستی
- Art not thou indeed a Súfí, then? That which is (in hand) is reduced to naught by postponing the payment.”
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گفتمش پوشیده خوشتر سر یار ** خود تو در ضمن حکایت گوش دار 135
- I said to him: “It is better that the secret of the Friend should be disguised: do thou hearken (to it as implied) in the contents of the tale.
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خوشتر آن باشد که سر دلبران ** گفته آید در حدیث دیگران
- It is better that the lovers' secret should be told in the talk of others.”
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گفت مکشوف و برهنه گوی این ** آشکارا به که پنهان ذکر دین
- He said: “Tell this openly and nakedly: talk of religion is better overt than covert.
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پرده بردار و برهنه گو که من ** می‌‌نخسبم با صنم با پیرهن
- Lift the veil and speak nakedly, for I do not wear a shirt when I sleep with the Adored One.”