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چند چندت گیرم و تو بیخبر ** در سلاسل ماندهای پا تا به سر
- How oft, how oft do I chastise thee, and thou unaware! Thou art lying (bound) in chains from head to foot.
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زنگ تو بر تویت ای دیگ سیاه ** کرد سیمای درونت را تباه 3370
- Thy rust, coat on coat, O black pot, hath marred the visage of thy heart.
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بر دلت زنگار بر زنگارها ** جمع شد تا کور شد ز اسرارها
- Layers of rust have collected upon thy heart, so that it hath become blind to (the spiritual) mysteries.”
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گر زند آن دود بر دیگ نوی ** آن اثر بنماید ار باشد جوی
- If that smoke should beat upon a new pot, the traces of it would show, though it were (only as much as) a barley-corn,
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ز انکه هر چیزی به ضد پیدا شود ** بر سپیدی آن سیه رسوا شود
- Because everything is made manifest by (its) contrary: upon a white object the black becomes conspicuous;
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چون سیه شد دیگ پس تاثیر دود ** بعد از این بروی که بیند زود زود
- (But) when the pot has been blackened, then after this who will at once perceive the effect of the smoke upon it?
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مرد آهنگر که او زنگی بود ** دود را با روش هم رنگی بود 3375
- The ironsmith who is an Ethiopian—the smoke is of the same colour as his face;
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مرد رومی کاو کند آهنگری ** رویش ابلق گردد از دود آوری
- The Greek who does the work of an ironsmith—his face, from gathering smoke, becomes piebald (spotted with black).
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پس بداند زود تاثیر گناه ** تا بنالد زود گوید ای اله
- Therefore he will quickly recognise the effect of sin, so that he will soon lament (and) say, “O God!”
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چون کند اصرار و بد پیشه کند ** خاک اندر چشم اندیشه کند
- (But) when he persists (in sin) and makes a practice of evil, and puts dust in the eye of meditation,