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آن شغالان آمدند آنجا بجمع ** همچو پروانه به گرداگرد شمع
- Those jackals came thither en masse, like moths around the candle.
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پس چه خوانیمت بگو ای جوهری ** گفت طاوس نر چون مشتری
- “Say then, what shall we call thee, O creature of (pure) substance?” He replied, “ A peacock (brilliant) as Jupiter.”
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پس بگفتندش که طاوسان جان ** جلوه‌ها دارند اندر گلستان
- Then they said to him, “The spiritual peacocks have displays (with the Beloved) in the Rose-garden:
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تو چنان جلوه کنی گفتا که نی ** بادیه نارفته چون کوبم منی 775
- Dost thou display thyself like that?” “No,” said he: “not having gone into the desert, how should I tread (the valley of) Mina?”
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بانگ طاووسان کنی گفتا که لا ** پس نه‌ای طاووس خواجه بوالعلا
- “Dost thou utter the cry of peacocks?” “Nay,” said he. “Then, Master Bu’l-‘Alam thou art not a peacock.
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خلعت طاووس آید ز آسمان ** کی رسی از رنگ و دعویها بدان
- The peacock’s garment of honour comes from Heaven: how wilt thou attain thereto by means of colours and pretences?”
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تشبیه فرعون و دعوی الوهیت او بدان شغال کی دعوی طاوسی می‌کرد
- Comparison of Pharaoh and his pretence of divinity to the jackal which pretended to be a peacock.
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همچو فرعونی مرصع کرده ریش ** برتر از عیسی پریده از خریش
- Thou art even as Pharaoh, who bejeweled his beard and in his asinine folly soared higher than Jesus.
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او هم از نسل شغال ماده زاد ** در خم مالی و جاهی در فتاد
- He too was born of the generation of the she-jackal and fell into a vat of riches and power.
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هر که دید آن جاه و مالش سجده کرد ** سجده‌ی افسوسیان را او بخورد 780
- Every one who beheld his power and riches bowed down to him in worship: he swallowed the worship of the idle mockers (worldlings).
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گشت مستک آن گدای ژنده‌دلق ** از سجود و از تحیرهای خلق
- That beggar in tattered cloak became miserably drunken with the people’s worship and feelings of amazement.