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نی خدا را امتحانی می‌کنند ** نی در سود و زیانی می‌زنند
- Neither do they put God to any test, nor do they knock at the door of any profit or loss.
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باز دادن شاه گنج‌نامه را به آن فقیر کی بگیر ما از سر این برخاستیم
- How the king gave back the treasure-scroll to the fakir, saying, “Take it: we are quit of it.”
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چونک رقعه‌ی گنج پر آشوب را ** شه مسلم داشت آن مکروب را 1975
- When the king handed over to that grief-stricken man the treasure-scroll (which was) fraught with commotion,
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گشت آمن او ز خصمان و ز نیش ** رفت و می‌پیچید در سودای خویش
- He (the fakir) became secure from rivals and annoyance, (so) he went and wrapped himself in his melancholy madness.
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یار کرد او عشق درداندیش را ** کلب لیسد خویش ریش خویش را
- He made sad-thoughted Love his friend: a dog licks his own sore himself.
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عشق را در پیچش خود یار نیست ** محرمش در ده یکی دیار نیست
- Love hath none to help him in his torment: there is not in the village one inhabitant familiar with him.
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نیست از عاشق کسی دیوانه‌تر ** عقل از سودای او کورست و کر
- None is more mad than the lover, (yet) Reason is blind and deaf to his melancholia,
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زآنک این دیوانگی عام نیست ** طب را ارشاد این احکام نیست 1980
- Because this is no common madness: in these cases Medicine cannot give right guidance.
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گر طبیبی را رسد زین گون جنون ** دفتر طب را فرو شوید به خون
- If frenzy of this kind overtake a physician, he will wash out (obliterate) the book of Medicine with (tears of) blood.
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طب جمله‌ی عقلها منقوش اوست ** روی جمله دلبران روپوش اوست
- The Medicine of all intellects is (but) a picture of him (Love); the faces of all sweethearts are (but) a veil of him.
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روی در روی خود آر ای عشق‌کیش ** نیست ای مفتون ترا جز خویش خویش
- O votary of Love, turn thy face towards thine own face: thou hast no kinsman but thyself, O distraught one.