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مسخره‌ی ابلیس گردد در زمن ** از ضعیفی رای آن توبه‌شکن
- Through weakness of resolution that breaker of (vows of) penitence becomes the laughing-stock of Iblís in the world.
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در سر آید هر زمان چون اسپ لنگ ** که بود بارش گران و راه سنگ 3385
- He constantly comes down on his head, like a lame horse, for his load is heavy and the road is (full of) stones.
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می‌خورد از غیب بر سر زخم او ** از شکست توبه آن ادبارخو
- He is always getting blows on his head from the Unseen, that man of luckless nature, from breaking (his vows of) penitence.
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باز توبه می‌کند با رای سست ** دیو یک تف کرد و توبه‌ش را سکست
- Then again he repents with infirm resolution: the Devil spits (in scorn) and shatters his penitence.
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ضعف اندر ضعف و کبرش آنچنان ** که به خواری بنگرد در واصلان
- Weakness on weakness! (Yet) his arrogance is such that he regards with contempt those that attain (to God).
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ای شتر که تو مثال مومنی ** کم فتی در رو و کم بینی زنی
- O camel, thou who art a type of the true believer dost not fall on thy face, nor dost thou turn up thy nose (in disdain).
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تو چه داری که چنین بی‌آفتی ** بی‌عثاری و کم اندر رو فتی 3390
- What hast thou that thou art so untouched by bane and free from stumbling and dost not fall on thy face?”
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گفت گر چه هر سعادت از خداست ** در میان ما و تو بس فرقهاست
- He (the camel) said, “Though every felicity is from God, there are many differences between me and thee.
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سر بلندم من دو چشم من بلند ** بینش عالی امانست از گزند
- I have a high head, my eyes are high: lofty vision is a protection against injury.
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از سر که من ببینم پای کوه ** هر گو و هموار را من توه توه
- From the top of the mountain I see the mountain-foot, I see every hollow and level, fold by fold,