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میشدم از دست من یک بارگی ** کردیم شاهانه این غم خوارگی 2480
- I should have passed altogether from the bondage (of this life). Thou in kingly fashion hast bestowed on me this sympathy.”
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گفت هیهی این دعا دیگر مکن ** بر مکن تو خویش را از بیخ و بن
- Said the Prophet, “Hey! do not offer this prayer again: do not dig yourself up from root and base.
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تو چه طاقت داری ای مور نژند ** که نهد بر تو چنان کوه بلند
- What strength have you, O wretched ant, to endure that He should lay on you such a lofty mountain?”
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گفت توبه کردم ای سلطان که من ** از سر جلدی نه لافم هیچ فن
- He answered, “O Sultan, I repent (and vow) that in no wise will I (henceforth) brag recklessly.
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این جهان تیه است و تو موسی و ما ** از گنه در تیه مانده مبتلا
- This world is the Desert (of the Israelites), and thou art Moses, and we because of (our) sin remain in the Desert in tribulation.
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سالها ره میرویم و در اخیر ** همچنان در منزل اول اسیر 2485
- We are wayfaring for years, and at the end we are still held captive in the first stage (of the journey).
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گر دل موسی ز ما راضی بدی ** تیه را راه و کران پیدا شدی
- If the heart of Moses were pleased with us, there would be shown (to us) the way through the Desert and the (farthest) border (thereof);
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ور به کل بیزار بودی او ز ما ** کی رسیدی خوانمان هیچ از سما
- And if he were wholly disgusted with us, how by any means would trays of food come to us from heaven?
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کی ز سنگی چشمهها جوشان شدی ** در بیابانمان امان جان شدی
- How would springs gush from a rock, (and how) would there be security for our lives in the desert?
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بل به جای خوان خود آتش آمدی ** اندر این منزل لهب بر ما زدی
- Nay, truly, fire would come instead of trays: flames would beat upon us in this abode.