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گفت پیغمبر که آری لیک ما ** بر سر راهیم و بر عزم غزا
- The Prophet said (to the Hypocrites), “Yes (I will do as ye wish), but (just now) we are intending to march and starting on a campaign.
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زین سفر چون باز گردم آن گهان ** سوی آن مسجد روان گردم روان
- As soon as I return from this expedition, I will then set out to that Mosque at once.”
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دفعشان کرد و به سوی غزو تاخت ** با دغایان از دغا نردی بباخت 2865
- He (thus) put them off and hurried to the field of war: he played a game of trickery with the tricksters.
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چون بیامد از غزا باز آمدند ** چنگ اندر وعدهی ماضی زدند
- When he came back from the campaign, they returned and laid hold of (demanded the fulfilment of) the past promise.
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گفت حقش ای پیمبر فاش گو ** غدر را ور جنگ باشد باش گو
- God said to him, “O Prophet, proclaim the excuse (pretence and dissimulation), and if war be (the consequence), say, ‘Let it be!’”
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گفت ای قوم دغل خامش کنید ** تا نگویم رازهاتان تن زنید
- He (the Prophet) said, “Ye are exceedingly bad-hearted and hostile. Hush, lest I tell your secret thoughts.”
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چون نشانی چند از اسرارشان ** در بیان آورد بد شد کارشان
- When he had declared (to them) a few indications of their inmost thoughts, they were in evil plight.
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قاصدان زو باز گشتند آن زمان ** حاش لله حاش لله دم زنان 2870
- Thereupon the envoys turned back from him crying, “God forfend! God forfend!”
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هر منافق مصحفی زیر بغل ** سوی پیغمبر بیاورد از دغل
- Every Hypocrite, by way of fraud, brought a Qur’án under his arm to the Prophet,
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بهر سوگندان که ایمان جنتی است ** ز انکه سوگندان کژان را سنتی است
- In order to take oaths—for oaths are a shield; (this they did) because (taking) oaths is a custom followed by the wicked.