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من نلافم ور بلافم همچو آب ** نیست در آتش‌کشی‌ام اضطراب
- I do not boast, or if I boast, (’tis only in appearance, for) like water, I have no trouble in quenching fire.
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چون بدزدم چون حفیظ مخزن اوست ** چون نباشم سخت‌رو پشت من اوست
- How should I steal when He is the keeper of the treasury? How should not I be hard-faced (bold and resolute)? He is my support.
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هر که از خورشید باشد پشت گرم ** سخت رو باشد نه بیم او را نه شرم
- Every one whose back is warmed by the Sun will be hard-faced: he will have neither dread nor shame.
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همچو روی آفتاب بی‌حذر ** گشت رویش خصم‌سوز و پرده‌در 4140
- His face has become foe-burning and veil-rending, like the face of the peerless Sun.
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هر پیمبر سخت‌رو بد در جهان ** یکسواره کوفت بر جیش شهان
- Every prophet was hard-faced in this world, and beat single-handed against the army of the kings,
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رو نگردانید از ترس و غمی ** یک‌تنه تنها بزد بر عالمی
- And did not avert his face from any fear or pain, (but) single and alone dashed against a (whole) world.
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سنگ باشد سخت‌رو و چشم‌شوخ ** او نترسد از جهان پر کلوخ
- The rock is hard-faced and bold-eyed: it is not afraid of the world that is full of brickbats;
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کان کلوخ از خشت‌زن یک‌لخت شد ** سنگ از صنع خدایی سخت شد
- For those brickbats were made solid by the brick-maker, (while) the rock was hardened by Divine art.
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گوسفندان گر برونند از حساب ** ز انبهیشان کی بترسد آن قصاب 4145
- If the sheep are beyond count, (yet) how should the butcher be afraid of their numerousness?
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کلکم راع نبی چون راعیست ** خلق مانند رمه او ساعیست
- ‘Each of you is a shepherd’: the prophet is as the shepherd. The people are like the flock; he is the overseer.