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حس تو از حس خر کمتر بده ست ** که دل تو زین وحلها بر نجست
- Your sense has been less than the sense of the ass, for your heart has not recoiled from these clods of mud.
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در وحل تاویل رخصت میکنی ** چون نمیخواهی کز آن دل بر کنی
- You interpret (some canonical text) as an indulgence (authorising you to stay) in the mud, since you are not willing to tear your heart from it.
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کاین روا باشد مرا من مضطرم ** حق نگیرد عاجزی را از کرم
- (You say), “This is allowable for me: I am under compulsion. God in His kindness will not chastise a helpless one (like me).”
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خود گرفته ستت تو چون کفتار کور ** این گرفتن را نبینی از غرور 3360
- Indeed He has (already) chastised you, (but) like the blind hyena from self-deception you do not see the chastisement.
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میگوند این جایگه کفتار نیست ** از برون جویید کاندر غار نیست
- They (the hunters) are saying, "The hyena is not in this place; look for him outside, for he is not in the cave."
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این همیگویند و بندش مینهند ** او همیگوید ز من بیآگهند
- If the enemy had known of me, how should he have exclaimed, "Where is that hyena'?"
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گر ز من آگاه بودی این عدو ** کی ندا کردی که آن کفتار کو
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دعویکردن آن شخص که خدای تعالی مرا نمیگیرد به گناه و جواب گفتن شعیب علیه السلام مر او را
- The statement of a certain individual that God most High would not punish him for sin, and Shu‘ayb’s answer to him.
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آن یکی میگفت در عهد شعیب ** که خدا از من بسی دیده ست عیب
- In the time of Shu‘ayb a certain man was saying, “God hath seen many a fault from me.
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چند دید از من گناه و جرمها ** و ز کرم یزدان نمیگیرد مرا 3365
- How many sins and trespasses hath He seen me commit! And (still), God in His kindness does not punish me.”
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حق تعالی گفت در گوش شعیب ** در جواب او فصیح از راه غیب
- In answer to him God most High by the mysterious way spoke clearly into the ear of Shu‘ayb,