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گفت خوابستم مرا بگذار و رو ** گفت آخر یار را منقاد شو
- “I am sleepy,” said he; “let me alone, go!” He replied, “Pray, give in to your friend,
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تا بخسبی در پناه عاقلی ** در جوار دوستی صاحب دلی
- So that you may sleep under the safeguard of a sage, under the protection of one loved (by God), a man of heart (spiritual insight).”
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در خیال افتاد مرد از جد او ** خشمگین شد زود گردانید رو 2030
- The man was thrown by his (the other's) earnestness into a (groundless) fancy: he became angry and quickly averted his face,
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کاین مگر قصد من آمد خونی است ** یا طمع دارد گدا و تونی است
- Thinking, “Mayhap this man has come to attack me—he is a murderer; or he has hope (of gain)—he is a beggar and a tout;
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یا گرو بسته ست با یاران بدین ** که بترساند مرا زین هم نشین
- Or he has wagered with his friends that he will make me afraid of this companion.”
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خود نیامد هیچ از خبث سرش ** یک گمان نیک اندر خاطرش
- From the wickedness of his heart, not (even) one good surmise came into his thoughts at all.
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ظن نیکش جملگی بر خرس بود ** او مگر مر خرس را هم جنس بود
- His good opinions were wholly for the bear: to be sure, he was of the same kind as the bear.
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عاقلی را از سگی تهمت نهاد ** خرس را دانست اهل مهر و داد 2035
- Through currishness, he suspected a sage and deemed a bear affectionate and just.
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گفتن موسی علیه السلام گوساله پرست را که آن خیال اندیشی و حزم تو کجاست
- How Moses, on whom be peace, said to one who worshipped the (golden) calf, “Where is (what has become of) thy vain scepticism and precaution?”
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گفت موسی با یکی مست خیال ** کای بد اندیش از شقاوت وز ضلال
- Moses said to one drunken with (deluding) fancy, “O thou who thinkest evil because of (thy) unblessedness and perdition,
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صد گمانت بود در پیغمبریم ** با چنین برهان و این خلق کریم
- Thou hast had a hundred suspicions concerning my prophethood, notwithstanding these proofs and this noble nature (which I have shown).