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صد هزاران این چنین می‌دارد او ** که بر ادراکات تو بگمارد او
- He hath a hundred thousand wines of this sort which He sets (in authority) over thy (intellectual) perceptions.
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هست میهای شقاوت نفس را ** که ز ره بیرون برد آن نحس را
- For the carnal soul there are the wines of damnation, which carry that ill-starred one out of the (right) way.
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هست میهای سعادت عقل را ** که بیابد منزل بی‌نقل را
- For the intellect there are the wines of felicity, so that it gains the abode whence is no departure.
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خیمه‌ی گردون ز سرمستی خویش ** بر کند زان سو بگیرد راه پیش 2690
- Through its intoxication it uproots the tent of the sky and takes the way (leading) onward from that (earthly) direction.
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هین بهر مستی دلا غره مشو ** هست عیسی مست حق خر مست جو
- Hark, be not deceived, O heart, by every intoxication: Jesus is intoxicated with God, the ass is intoxicated with barley.
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این چنین می را بجو زین خنبها ** مستی‌اش نبود ز کوته دنبها
- Seek wine like this from these jars: the intoxication (produced) by it is not (to be obtained) from the bobtailed;
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زانک هر معشوق چون خنبیست پر ** آن یکی درد و دگر صافی چو در
- For every object of love is like a full jar, one (full of) dregs, and another pure as pearls.
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می‌شناسا هین بچش با احتیاط ** تا میی یابی منزه ز اختلاط
- O connoisseur of wine, beware, taste with precaution, that thou mayst find a wine free from adulteration.
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هر دو مستی می‌دهندت لیک این ** مستی‌ات آرد کشان تا رب دین 2695
- Both (jars) will intoxicate thee, but this (blessed) intoxication, drawing (thee along), will lead thee to the Lord of the Judgement,
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تا رهی از فکر و وسواس و حیل ** بی عقال این عقل در رقص‌الجمل
- So that thou wilt be delivered from thought and anxiety and expedients, (whilst) this intellect (moves) unshackled at the camel's ambling pace.