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شیر او نوشد که در نشو و نماست ** چارق او پوشد که او محتاج پاست
- (Only) he that is waxing and growing drinks milk: (only) he that has need of feet puts on shoes.
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ور برای بندهش است این گفتوگو ** آن که حق گفت او من است و من خود او
- And if these words of yours are (meant) for His servant, of whom God said, ‘He is I and I myself am he’;
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آن که گفت انی مرضت لم تعد ** من شدم رنجور او تنها نشد
- (For him) of whom He (God) said, ‘Verily, I was sick and thou didst not visit Me,’ (that is), ‘I became ill, not he (the sick man) alone’;
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آن که بییسمع و بییبصر شده ست ** در حق آن بنده این هم بیهده ست
- (For him) who has become seeing by Me and hearing by Me— this (talk of yours) is foolish nonsense even in regard to that servant.
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بیادب گفتن سخن با خاص حق ** دل بمیراند سیه دارد ورق 1740
- To speak irreverently to one chosen of God causes the heart (spirit) to perish and keeps the page (record) black.
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گر تو مردی را بخوانی فاطمه ** گر چه یک جنسند مرد و زن همه
- If you should call a man ‘Fátima’—though men and women are all of one kind—
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قصد خون تو کند تا ممکن است ** گر چه خوش خو و حلیم و ساکن است
- He will seek to murder you, so far as it is possible (for him), albeit he is good-natured and forbearing and quiet.
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فاطمه مدح است در حق زنان ** مرد را گویی بود زخم سنان
- (The name) Fátima is (a term of) praise in regard to women, (but) if you address it to a man, ’tis (like) the blow of a spearhead.
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دست و پا در حق ما استایش است ** در حق پاکی حق آلایش است
- Hand and foot are (terms of) praise in relation to us; in relation to the holiness of God they are pollution.
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لم یلد لم یولد او را لایق است ** والد و مولود را او خالق است 1745
- (The words) He begat not, He was not begotten are appropriate to Him: He is the Creator of begetter and begotten.