#1
چو زین بُگذَری مَردُم آمد پَدید
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شد این بَندها را سَراسَر کِلید
“When all these lower realms were passed, humankind came into being, becoming the key to unlock all tied knots of creation.”
#2
سَرش راست بَر شُد چو سَروِ بُلَند
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به گفتارْ خوب و خِرَدْ کار بَند
“He stood erect like a tall cypress tree, gifted with fair speech and employing wisdom in every deed.”
#3
پذیرندهٔ هوش و رای و خِرَد
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مَر او را دَد و دام فَرمان بَرَد
“Capable of receiving intelligence, sound judgment, and wisdom, both wild beasts and tame creatures yielded to his command.”
#4
زِ راهِ خِرَد بِنگَری اَندکی
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که مَردُم به مَعنی چه باشَد یکی
“Look thoughtfully through the path of wisdom, to comprehend what it truly means to be human in inner truth.”
#5
مگر مَردُمی خیره خوانی هَمی
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جز این را نشانی نَدانی هَمی
“Unless you blindly call mere appearance human, knowing no other deeper nature or divine mark.”
#6
تو را از دو گیتی بَر آوَرده‌اَند
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به چَندین میانچی بِپَروَردِه‌اَند
“You were brought forth from both the physical and spiritual realms, nurtured into being through many intermediaries.”
#7
نُخُستینِ فِطرَت پَسینِ شُمار
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تویی خویشتَن را به بازی مَدار
“You are the ultimate aim of creation, though last in sequence; do not hold yourself in light esteem or treat life as a game.”
#8
شِنیدَم زِ دانا دِگرگونه زین
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چه دانیم رازِ جَهان آفرین
“I have heard other profound words from the wise; yet who among us can truly fathom the secrets of the Creator of the World?”
#9
نِگَه کُن سَرانجامِ خود را ببین
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چو کاری بیابی اَز این بِه گُزین
“Behold your final end and destiny, and whenever you find a path superior to this, choose it wisely.”
#10
به رَنج اَندر آری تَنَت را رَواست
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که خود رَنج بُردن به دانش سِزاست
“It is fitting to subject your body to hard toil, for enduring hardship in pursuit of knowledge is truly worthy.”
#11
چو خواهی که یابی زِ هَر بَد رَها
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سَر اَندر نَیاری به دامِ بَلا
“If you desire to be saved from every evil, never bow your head into the snare of calamity.”
#12
نِگه کُن بِدین گُنبدِ تیزگَرد
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که دَرمان اَزوی اَست و زویَست دَرد
“Look upon this swift-turning vault of heaven, from which remedies flow and from which pain descends.”
#13
نه گَشت‌ِ زَمانه بِفَرسایَدَش
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نه آن رَنج وُ تیمار بِگزایَدَش
“The turning of time does not wear it away, nor do earthly grief and hardship afflict its eternal motion.”
#14
نه از جُنبش آرام گیرَد هَمی
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نه چون ما تَباهی پَذیرَد هَمی
“It finds no rest from its constant revolution, nor does it yield to decay and corruption as we mortals do.”
#15
اَز او دان فُزونی اَز او هَم شُمار
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بَد و نیک نَزدیکِ او آشکار
“Attribute both increase and fate to its turning, for all good and evil stand unveiled before it.”