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لیک استثنا و تسبیح خدا ** ز اعتماد خود بد از ایشان جدا 3665
- But, because of their reliance upon themselves, ’twas far from them to pronounce the saving clause and glorify God.
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ذکر استثنا و حزم ملتوی ** گفته شد در ابتدای مثنوی
- Mention of the saving clause and (of the need for) manifold precaution was made at the beginning of the Mathnawí.
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صد کتاب ار هست جز یک باب نیست ** صد جهت را قصد جز محراب نیست
- If there are a hundred (religious) books, (yet) they are but one chapter: a hundred (different) regions seek but one place of worship.
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این طرق را مخلصی یک خانه است ** این هزاران سنبل از یک دانه است
- (All) these roads end in one House: (all) these thousand ears of corn are from one Seed.
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گونه‌گونه خوردنیها صد هزار ** جمله یک چیزست اندر اعتبار
- All the hundred thousand sorts of food and drink are (only) one thing in respect (of their final cause).
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از یکی چون سیر گشتی تو تمام ** سرد شد اندر دلت پنجه طعام 3670
- When you are entirely satiated with one (kind of food), fifty (other) foods become cold (displeasing) to your heart.
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در مجاعت پس تو احول دیده‌ای ** که یکی را صد هزاران دیده‌ای
- In hunger, then, you are seeing double, for you have regarded a single one as a hundred thousand.
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گفته بودیم از سقام آن کنیز ** وز طبیبان و قصور فهم نیز
- We had (previously) told of the sickness of the handmaiden and (the story) of the physicians and also their lack of understanding—
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کان طبیبان هم‌چو اسپ بی‌عذار ** غافل و بی‌بهره بودند از سوار
- How those physicians were like an unbridled horse, heedless of the rider and having no profit (of him).
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کامشان پر زخم از قرع لگام ** سمشان مجروح از تحویل گام
- (Though) their palates were covered with sores made by the impact of the bit, and their hooves wounded by (continually) changing step,