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این چنین کژ بازیی در جفت و طاق ** با نبی میباختند اهل نفاق
- The Hypocrites played against the Prophet (just) such a crooked game at odd and even (as was played by Iblís against Mu‘áwiya),
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کز برای عز دین احمدی ** مسجدی سازیم و بود آن مرتدی
- Saying, “Let us build a mosque for the glory of the Mohammedan religion”; and that was (really) apostasy (on their part).
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این چنین کژ بازیی میباختند ** مسجدی جز مسجد او ساختند
- Such a crooked game were they playing: they built a mosque other than his mosque.
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فرش و سقف و قبهاش آراسته ** لیک تفریق جماعت خواسته
- They constructed (well) its floor and roof and dome, but they desired to disunite the (Moslem) community.
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نزد پیغمبر به لابه آمدند ** همچو اشتر پیش او زانو زدند 2830
- They came to the Prophet with (guileful) entreaty: they knelt as camels before him,
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کای رسول حق برای محسنی ** سوی آن مسجد قدم رنجه کنی
- Saying, “O Messenger of God, wilt thou for kindness' sake give thyself the trouble (to walk) to that mosque,
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تا مبارک گردد از اقدام تو ** تا قیامت تازه باد ایام تو
- To the end that it may be made blessed by thy approach— may thy days flourish until the Resurrection!
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مسجد روز گل است و روز ابر ** مسجد روز ضرورت وقت فقر
- It is a mosque for muddy and cloudy days, a mosque for days of sore distress in times of poverty,
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تا غریبی یابد آن جا خیر و جا ** تا فراوان گردد این خدمتسرا
- That a (poor) stranger may get charity and room (to shelter) there, and that this house of service may be frequented,
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تا شعار دین شود بسیار و پر ** ز انکه با یاران شود خوش کار مر 2835
- So that the rites of the Religion may be multiplied and abound; because a bitter plight is sweetened (by being shared) with friends.