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آتشی از تو نسوزم چاره نیست ** کیست کز دست تو جامهش پاره نیست
- You are fire and naphtha: you are fire: I cannot help being burned by you. Who is there whose raiment is not torn to pieces by your hand?
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طبعت ای آتش چو سوزانیدنی است ** تا نسوزانی تو چیزی چاره نیست 2655
- Inasmuch as it is your nature, O fire, to be a cause of burning, there is no help but you must burn something.
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لعنت این باشد که سوزانت کند ** اوستاد جمله دزدانت کند
- This is God's curse (on you), that He makes you burn (things) and makes you the master of all thieves.
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با خدا گفتی شنیدی رو برو ** من چه باشم پیش مکرت ای عدو
- You have spoken with God and heard (Him speak) face to face: what should I be (able to do) before your deceit, O enemy?
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معرفتهای تو چون بانگ صفیر ** بانگ مرغانی است لیکن مرغ گیر
- Your stock of knowledge is like the sound of (the fowler's) whistle: it is the cry of birds, but it is bird-ensnaring.
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صد هزاران مرغ را آن ره زده ست ** مرغ غره کاشنایی آمده ست
- That (whistle) has waylaid myriads of birds, the bird (in each case) being duped (by the fancy) that a friend is come.
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در هوا چون بشنود بانگ صفیر ** از هوا آید شود اینجا اسیر 2660
- When it hears in the air the sound of the whistle, it comes (down) from the air and is made captive here.
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قوم نوح از مکر تو در نوحهاند ** دل کباب و سینه شرحه شرحهاند
- Through your deceit the people of Noah are in lamentation: they have hearts charred and bosoms (torn) to shreds.
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عاد را تو باد دادی در جهان ** در فگندی در عذاب و اندهان
- You gave ‘Ád in this world to the wind (of destruction): you cast (them) into torment and sorrows.
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از تو بود آن سنگسار قوم لوط ** در سیاه آبه ز تو خوردند غوط
- Through you was the stoning of the people of Lot: through you were they sunk in the black rain-water.