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1976-1985

  • اهل دنیا عقل ناقص داشتند  ** تا که صبح صادقش پنداشتند 
  • The worldly people had defective understandings, so that they deemed it to be the true dawn.

  • صبح کاذب کاروانها را زدست  ** که به بوی روز بیرون آمدست 
  • The false dawn has waylaid (many) caravans which have set out in hope of the daybreak.

  • صبح کاذب خلق را رهبر مباد  ** کو دهد بس کاروانها را به باد 
  • May the false dawn not be the people's guide! for it gives many caravans to the wind (of destruction).

  • ای شده تو صبح کاذب را رهین  ** صبح صادق را تو کاذب هم مبین 
  • O thou who hast become captive to the false dawn, do not regard the true dawn also as false.

  • گر نداری از نفاق و بد امان  ** از چه داری بر برادر ظن همان  1980
  • If thou (thyself) hast no protection (art not exempt) from hypocrisy and wickedness, wherefore shouldst thou impute the same (vices) to thy brother?

  • بدگمان باشد همیشه زشت‌کار  ** نامه‌ی خود خواند اندر حق یار 
  • The evil-doer is always thinking ill (of others): he reads his own book as referring to his neighbour.

  • آن خسان که در کژیها مانده‌اند  ** انبیا را ساحر و کژ خوانده‌اند 
  • The wretches who have remained (sunk) in (their own) unrighteous qualities have called the prophets magicians and unrighteous;

  • وآن امیران خسیس قلب‌ساز  ** این گمان بردند بر حجره‌ی ایاز 
  • And those base Amírs, (who were) forgers of falsehood, conceived this evil thought about the chamber of Ayáz,

  • کو دفینه دارد و گنج اندر آن  ** ز آینه‌ی خود منگر اندر دیگران 
  • (Supposing) that he kept there a buried hoard and treasure. Do not look at others in the mirror of thyself!

  • شاه می‌دانست خود پاکی او  ** بهر ایشان کرد او آن جست و جو  1985
  • The King, indeed, knew his innocence: (only) on their account was he making that investigation,