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از هوای مشتری بی‌شکوه ** مشتری را باد دادند این گروه
- In their desire for the inglorious purchaser, these people have thrown the (real) Purchaser to the winds.
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مشتری ماست الله اشتری ** از غم هر مشتری هین برتر آ
- He is our Purchaser—God hath purchased: hark, rise above anxiety for any (other) purchaser.
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مشتریی جو که جویان توست ** عالم آغاز و پایان توست
- Seek the Purchaser who is seeking thee, One who knows thy beginning and end.
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هین مکش هر مشتری را تو به دست ** عشق‌بازی با دو معشوقه بدست 1465
- Beware, do not try to win every purchaser: ’tis bad to make love to two sweethearts.
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زو نیابی سود و مایه گر خرد ** نبودش خود قیمت عقل و خرد
- Thou wilt not get interest or capital from him, if he purchase (thee): in sooth he has not the price for (thy) reason and intellect.
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نیست او را خود بهای نیم نعل ** تو برو عرضه کنی یاقوت و لعل
- He has not even the price of half a horseshoe, and thou art offering him (what is precious as) corundum and rubies.
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حرص کورت کرد و محرومت کند ** دیو هم‌چون خویش مرجومت کند
- Cupidity hath blinded thee and will deprive thee (of blessedness): the Devil will make thee accursed like himself.
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هم‌چنانک اصحاب فیل و قوم لوط ** کردشان مرجوم چون خود آن سخوط
- Just as that wrathful (fiend) made accursed like himself the Fellows of the Elephant and the people of Lot.
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مشتری را صابران در یافتند ** چون سوی هر مشتری نشتافتند 1470
- The patient (devout and self-denying) have gained the Purchaser, since they did not hasten towards every purchaser.
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آنک گردانید رو زان مشتری ** بخت و اقبال و بقا شد زو بری
- He that averted his face from that Purchaser—fortune and felicity and everlasting life are quit of him.