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چون نویسی بر سر بنوشته خط ** فهم ناید خواندنش گردد غلط
- When you write script over that which has been (already) written, it is not understood: the reading of it will be erroneous;
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کان سیاهی بر سیاهی اوفتاد ** هر دو خط شد کور و معنیی نداد
- For that (second) blackness has fallen (been made) upon blackness; (hence) both scripts have become obscure and have given no meaning.
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ور سوم باره نویسی بر سرش ** پس سیه کردی چو جان کافرش 3385
- And if you write a third time on the top of it, then you make it black as a soul full of wickedness.
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پس چه چاره جز پناه چارهگر ** ناامیدی مس و اکسیرش نظر
- What help is there, then, but (to take) refuge with (God) the Helper? Despair is copper, and the elixir for it is (God's) regard.
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ناامیدیها به پیش او نهید ** تا ز درد بیدوا بیرون جهید
- Lay your despairs before Him, that ye may escape from irremediable pain.
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چون شعیب این نکتهها با او بگفت ** ز آن دم جان در دل او گل شکفت
- When Shu‘ayb had told him these deep sayings, at that breath of the spirit roses blossomed in his heart.
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جان او بشنید وحی آسمان ** گفت اگر بگرفت ما را کو نشان
- His soul hearkened to the inspiration from Heaven; he said, (however), “If He hath punished me, where is the sign?”
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گفت یا رب دفع من میگوید او ** آن گرفتن را نشان میجوید او 3390
- He (Shu‘ayb) cried, “O Lord, he rebuts me, he seeks the sign of that punishment.”
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گفت ستارم نگویم رازهاش ** جز یکی رمز از برای ابتلاش
- He (God) said, “I am the Coverer (of sins): I will not tell his secrets, (I will give) but one indication for the sake of trying him.
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یک نشان آن که میگیرم و را ** آن که طاعت دارد از صوم و دعا
- One sign of My punishing him is this, that he has (to his credit) pious acts of fasting and orison