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در دعا میخواستی جانم از او ** کش بیابم مار بستانم از او
- My soul was desiring of Him (God) in prayer that I might find him and take the snake from him.
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شکر حق را کان دعا مردود شد ** من زیان پنداشتم آن سود شد
- Thanks to God that that prayer was rejected: I thought ’twas loss, but it has turned out to be gain.”
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بس دعاها کان زیان است و هلاک ** وز کرم مینشنود یزدان پاک 140
- Many are the prayers which are loss and destruction, and from kindness the Holy God is not hearing them.
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التماس کردن همراه عیسی علیه السلام زنده کردن استخوانها را از او
- How the companion of Jesus, on whom be peace, entreated Jesus, on whom be peace, to give life to the bones.
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گشت با عیسی یکی ابله رفیق ** استخوانها دید در حفرهی عمیق
- A certain foolish person accompanied Jesus (on his way). He espied some bones in a deep-dug hole.
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گفت ای همراه آن نام سنی ** که بدان تو مرده را زنده کنی
- He said, “O companion, (teach me) that exalted Name by which thou makest the dead to live;
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مر مرا آموز تا احسان کنم ** استخوانها را بدان با جان کنم
- Teach (it) me, that I may do good and by means of it endow the bones with life.”
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گفت خامش کن که آن کار تو نیست ** لایق انفاس و گفتار تو نیست
- Jesus said, “Be silent, for that is not thy work: ’tis not meet for thy breath and speech,
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کان نفس خواهد ز باران پاکتر ** وز فرشته در روش دراکتر 145
- For it wants breath purer than rain and more piercing in action than the angels.
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عمرها بایست تا دم پاک شد ** تا امین مخزن افلاک شد
- (Many) lifetimes were needed that the breath might be purified, so that he (its owner) was entrusted with the treasury of the Heavens.
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خود گرفتی این عصا در دست راست ** دست را دستان موسی از کجاست
- (Suppose that) thou hast grasped this rod firmly in thy hand: whence will accrue to thy hand the cunning of Moses?”