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و انکه آواز دلش هم بد بود ** آن سه کوری دوری سرمد بود
- But that one whose heart's voice also is bad—(for him) those three blindnesses are banishment everlasting (from the favour of God);
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لیک وهابان که بیعلت دهند ** بو که دستی بر سر زشتش نهند
- Yet it may be that the bounteous (saints), who give without cause, will lay a hand (of blessing) upon his ugly head.
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چون که آوازش خوش و مظلوم شد ** زو دل سنگین دلان چون موم شد
- Since his (the blind beggar's) voice became sweet and pitiable, the hearts of the stony-hearted were made (soft) as wax thereby.
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نالهی کافر چو زشت است و شهیق ** ز آن نمیگردد اجابت را رفیق 2005
- Inasmuch as the infidel's lament is ugly and (like) braying, for that (reason) it meets with no (favourable) response.
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اخسؤا بر زشت آواز آمده ست ** کاو ز خون خلق چون سگ بود مست
- “Be silent” has come down (has been revealed in the Qur’án) against the ugly-voiced (infidel), for he was drunken with the people's blood, like a dog.
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چون که نالهی خرس رحمت کش بود ** نالهات نبود چنین ناخوش بود
- Inasmuch as the lament of the bear attracts compassion, (while) your lament is not like this, (but) is unpleasing,
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دان که با یوسف تو گرگی کردهای ** یا ز خون بیگناهی خوردهای
- Know that you have behaved with wolfishness to (a) Joseph, or have drunk of the blood of an innocent.
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توبه کن و ز خورده استفراغ کن ** ور جراحت کهنه شد رو داغ کن
- Repent, and empty yourself of what you have drunk; and if your wound is old (and unhealed), go, cauterise (it).
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تتمهی حکایت خرس و آن ابله که بر وفای او اعتماد کرده بود
- Continuation of the story of the bear and of the fool who had put trust in its good faith.
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خرس هم از اژدها چون وارهید ** و آن کرم ز آن مرد مردانه بدید 2010
- The bear, too, when it was delivered from the dragon and received such kindness from that brave man—
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چون سگ اصحاب کهف آن خرس زار ** شد ملازم در پی آن بردبار
- Like the dog of the Men of the Cave, that poor bear became an attendant at the heels of him that bore the burden (of the fight with the dragon).