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صاحبش در پی دوان کای خیره سر ** هر طرف گرگیست اندر قصد خر
- Its master is running after it, crying, “O giddy-headed one, on every side there is a wolf in quest of an ass.
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گر ز چشمم این زمان غایب شوی ** پیشت آید هر طرف گرگ قوی
- If thou disappear now from mine eye, the mighty wolf will approach thee from every direction.
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استخوانت را بخاید چون شکر ** که نبینی زندگانی را دگر 2000
- He will chew thy bones like sugar, so that thou wilt never see life again.
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آن مگیر آخر بمانی از علف ** آتش از بی‌هیزمی گردد تلف
- (Or) do not suppose that (immediate destruction); at any rate thou wilt be left without fodder: fire is (finally) extinguished by lack of faggots.
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هین بمگریز از تصرف کردنم ** وز گرانی بار که جانت منم
- Beware! Do not flee from my control and from the heaviness of the burden, for I am thy (rational) soul.”
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تو ستوری هم که نفست غالبست ** حکم غالب را بود ای خودپرست
- You also are a beast (of burden), for your carnal soul predominates: the predominant (quality) determines (a thing's nature), O worshipper of self.
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خر نخواندت اسپ خواندت ذوالجلال ** اسپ تازی را عرب گوید تعال
- The Almighty did not call you an ass, He called you a horse: the Arabs say to the Arab horse “ta‘ál” (“come”).
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میر آخر بود حق را مصطفی ** بهر استوران نفس پر جفا 2005
- Mustafá (Mohammed) was God's stable-overseer for the beasts, (which are) the iniquitous carnal soul.
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قل تعالوا گفت از جذب کرم ** تا ریاضتتان دهم من رایضم
- Moved by lovingkindness, He (God) said, “Say, ‘ta‘álaw (come ye), to the end that I may train you: I am the trainer.’”
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نفسها را تا مروض کرده‌ام ** زین ستوران بس لگدها خورده‌ام
- (The Prophet said), “Since I have trained the carnal souls, I have suffered many kicks from these beasts.