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بی‌مراد تو شود ریشت سپید ** شرم دار از ریش خود ای کژ امید
- Without thy wish, thy beard grows white: be ashamed of thy beard, O thou whose hopes are perverse.
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مالک الملک است هر کش سر نهد ** بی‌جهان خاک صد ملکش دهد
- He (God) is the Possessor of the Kingdom: whosoever lays his head before Him, to him He gives a hundred kingdoms without the terrestrial world;
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لیک ذوق سجده‌ای پیش خدا ** خوشتر آید از دو صد دولت ترا 665
- But the (inward) savour of a single prostration before God will be more sweet to thee than two hundred empires:
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پس بنالی که نخواهم ملکها ** ملک آن سجده مسلم کن مرا
- Then thou wilt cry (in humble entreaty), “I desire not kingdoms: commit unto me the kingdom of that prostration.”
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پادشاهان جهان از بدرگی ** بو نبردند از شراب بندگی
- The kings of the world, because of their evil nature, got no scent of the wine of service (to God);
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ورنه ادهم‌وار سرگردان و دنگ ** ملک را برهم زدندی بی‌درنگ
- Otherwise, dizzy and dumbfounded like (Ibráhim son of) Adham, without delay they would have dashed their sovereignty to pieces.
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لیک حق بهر ثبات این جهان ** مهرشان بنهاد بر چشم و دهان
- But (this they do not inasmuch as), for the maintenance of this world, God set a seal upon their eyes and mouths,
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تا شود شیرین بریشان تخت و تاج ** که ستانیم از جهانداران خراج 670
- To the end that throne and crown should be sweet to them, "for" (they say) "we will exact tribute from the rulers of the world."
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از خراج ار جمع آری زر چو ریگ ** آخر آن از تو بماند مردریگ
- If by way of tribute thou amass gold as (though it were) sand, at last it will be left behind thee as an inheritance.
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همره جانت نگردد ملک و زر ** زر بده سرمه ستان بهر نظر
- Sovereignty and gold will not accompany thy spirit on its journey: give thy gold away, get collyrium for thy sight,