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آب شیرین تا نخوردی آب شور ** خوش بود خوش چون درون دیده نور
- Until you have drunk sweet water, briny water is sweet, sweet as the light in the eye;
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قطره‌ای از باده‌های آسمان ** بر کند جان را ز می وز ساقیان
- (But) a single drop of the wines of Heaven causes the soul to be rapt away from the wine and cupbearers (of this world)—
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تا چه مستیها بود املاک را ** وز جلالت روحهای پاک را
- So that (you may imagine) what intoxications befall the angels and the spirits purified by the Divine glory,
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که به بوی دل در آن می بسته‌اند ** خم باده‌ی این جهان بشکسته‌اند 825
- Who have set their hearts on that wine at one smell (of it), and have broken the jar of this world's wine;—
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جز مگر آنها که نومیدند و دور ** همچو کفاری نهفته در قبور
- Except, maybe, them that are in despair and far (from God), (outcasts) like infidels hidden (buried) in graves,
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ناامید از هر دو عالم گشته‌اند ** خارهای بی‌نهایت کشته‌اند
- (Them that) have lost all hope of both worlds and have sown thorns without end.
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پس ز مستیها بگفتند ای دریغ ** بر زمین باران بدادیمی چو میغ
- Therefore they (Hárút and Márút), because of their feelings of intoxication, said, “Alas, we would rain upon the earth, like clouds;
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گستریدیمی درین بی‌داد جا ** عدل و انصاف و عبادات و وفا
- We would spread in this place of injustice (a carpet of) justice and equity and devotions and faithfulness.”
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این بگفتند و قضا می‌گفت بیست ** پیش پاتان دام ناپیدا بسیست 830
- This they said, and the Divine decree was saying (to them), “Stop! Before your feet there is many an unseen pitfall.”
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هین مدو گستاخ در دشت بلا ** هین مران کورانه اندر کربلا
- Beware, do not run boldly into the desert of woe! Beware, do not push on blindly into the Karbalá (of tribulation),