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صدق او هم بر ضمیر میر زد ** عشق هر دم طرفه دیگی می‌پزد
- His sincerity touched the Amír's heart: Love is ever cooking a wondrous potful.
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صدق عاشق بر جمادی می‌تند ** چه عجب گر بر دل دانا زند
- The sincerity of the lover affects (even) an inanimate thing: what wonder if it make an impression on the mind of one possessed of knowledge?
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صدق موسی بر عصا و کوه زد ** بلک بر دریای پر اشکوه زد 2775
- The sincerity of Moses made an impression on the rod and the mountain; nay, on the majestic sea.
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صدق احمد بر جمال ماه زد ** بلک بر خورشید رخشان راه زد
- The sincerity of Ahmad (Mohammed) made an impression on the beauty of the moon; nay, it stopped the course of the shining sun.
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رو برو آورده هر دو در نفیر ** گشته گریان هم امیر و هم فقیر
- With face turned to face in lamentation, both the Amír and the Dervish had fallen to weeping.
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ساعتی بسیار چون بگریستند ** گفت میر او را که خیز ای ارجمند
- After they had wept much for a while, the Amír said to him, “Arise, O worthy man,
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هر چه خواهی از خزانه برگزین ** گرچه استحقاق داری صد چنین
- And choose from the Treasury whatever thou wilt, albeit thou deservest a hundred such (treasuries).
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خانه آن تست هر چت میل هست ** بر گزین خود هر دو عالم اندکست 2780
- The (treasure-) house is thine: choose anything thou desirest, (though) in truth the two worlds are little (in thy estimation).”
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گفت دستوری ندادندم چنین ** که کنم من این دخیلانه دخول
- He replied, “I have not been given permission (by God) to pick out anything with my own hand.
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من ز خود نتوانم این کردن فضول ** که کنم من این دخیلانه دخول
- I cannot of my own accord commit such an intemperance as to intrude in this way like an interloper."