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سهل گردان ره نما توفیق ده ** یا تقاضا را بهل بر ما منه
- The fulfilment of this (task), show the way, give aidance, or (else) relinquish the demand and do not lay (the burden) upon me!
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چون ز مفلس زر تقاضا می‌کنی ** زر ببخشش در سر ای شاه غنی
- Since Thou art demanding gold from an insolvent, give him gold in secret, O rich King!
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بی تو نظم و قافیه شام و سحر ** زهره کی دارد که آید در نظر
- Without Thee, how should poesy and rhyme dare to come into sight at eve or morn?
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نظم و تجنیس و قوافی ای علیم ** بنده‌ی امر توند از ترس و بیم
- Poesy and homonymy and rhymes, O Knowing One, are the slaves of Thy Command from fear and dread,
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چون مسبح کرده‌ای هر چیز را ** ذات بی تمییز و با تمییز را 1495
- Inasmuch as Thou hast made everything a glorifier (of Thee) —the undiscerning entity and the discerning (alike).
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هر یکی تسبیح بر نوعی دگر ** گوید و از حال آن این بی‌خبر
- Each glorifies (Thee) in a different fashion, and that one is unaware of the state of this one.
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آدمی منکر ز تسبیح جماد ** و آن جماد اندر عبادت اوستاد
- Man disbelieves in the glorification uttered by inanimate things, but those inanimate things are masters in (performing) worship.
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بلک هفتاد و دو ملت هر یکی ** بی‌خبر از یکدگر واندر شکی
- Nay, the two-and-seventy sects, every one, are unaware of (the real state of) each other and in a (great) doubt.
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چون دو ناطق را ز حال همدگر ** نیست آگه چون بود دیوار و در
- Since two speakers have no knowledge of each other's state, how will (it) be (with) wall and door?
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چون من از تسبیح ناطق غافلم ** چون بداند سبحه‌ی صامت دلم 1500
- Since I am heedless of the glorification uttered by one who speaks, how should my heart know the glorification performed by that which is mute?