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شد خلالی در دهانی راه یافت ** جانب شیرین‌زبانی می‌شتافت 1060
- He became (like) a toothpick and found his way into a mouth: he was hastening towards a man of sweet tongue.
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چون بدید آن خسته روی مصطفی ** خر مغشیا فتاد او بر قفا
- When that (sorely) wounded one beheld the face of Mustafá (Mohammed), he fell down in a swoon, he fell on his back.
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تا بدیری بی‌خود و بی‌خویش ماند ** چون به خویش آمد ز شادی اشک راند
- For a long time he remained unconscious and beside himself: when he came to himself, he shed tears for joy.
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مصطفی‌اش در کنار خود کشید ** کس چه داند بخششی کو را رسید
- Mustafá clasped him to his bosom: how should any one know the bounty that was bestowed on him?
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چون بود مسی که بر اکسیر زد ** مفلسی بر گنج پر توفیر زد
- How is it with a piece of copper that has touched the elixir? How with an insolvent who has hit upon an ample treasure?
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ماهی پژمرده در بحر اوفتاد ** کاروان گم شده زد بر رشاد 1065
- (’Twas as though) a fish parched (for want of water) fell into the sea, (or) a caravan that had lost its way struck the right road.
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آن خطاباتی که گفت آن دم نبی ** گر زند بر شب بر آید از شبی
- If the words which the Prophet addressed (to him) at that moment should fall upon (the ears of) Night, it (Night) would cease from being night;
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روز روشن گردد آن شب چون صباح ** من نتوانم باز گفت آن اصطلاح
- Night would become day radiant as dawn: I cannot express (the real meaning of) that mystic allocution.
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خود تو دانی که آفتابی در حمل ** تا چه گوید با نبات و با دقل
- You yourself know what (words) a sun, in (the sign of) Aries, speaks to the plants and the date-palms;
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خود تو دانی هم که آن آب زلال ** می چه گوید با ریاحین و نهال
- You yourself, too, know what the limpid water is saying to the sweet herbs and the sapling.