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  • اندرون خانه‏اش موسی معاف ** و ز برون می‏کشت طفلان را گزاف‏
  • Moses (lay) safe within his (Pharaoh's) house, while outside he was killing the infants in vain,

  • همچو صاحب نفس کاو تن پرورد ** بر دگر کس ظن حقدی می‏برد
  • Even as the sensual man who pampers his body and suspects some one else of a bitter hatred (against him),

  • کاین عدو و آن حسود و دشمن است ** خود حسود و دشمن او آن تن است‏
  • Saying, “This one is a foe, and that one is envious and an enemy,” (though) in truth his envier and enemy is that body (of his).

  • او چو موسی و تنش فرعون او ** او به بیرون می‏دود که کو عدو
  • He is like Moses, and his body is his Pharaoh: he keeps running (to and fro) outside, asking, “Where is my enemy?”

  • نفسش اندر خانه‏ی تن نازنین ** بر دگر کس دست می‏خاید به کین‏ 775
  • His fleshly soul (is) luxuriating in the house, which is his body, (while) he gnaws his hand in rancour against some one else.

  • ملامت کردن مردم شخصی را که مادرش را کشت به تهمت
  • How men blamed a person who killed his mother because he suspected her (of adultery).

  • آن یکی از خشم مادر را بکشت ** هم به زخم خنجر و هم زخم مشت‏
  • A certain man killed his mother in wrath, with blows of a dagger and also with blows of his fist.

  • آن یکی گفتش که از بد گوهری ** یاد ناوردی تو حق مادری‏
  • Some one said to him, “From evil nature you have not borne in mind what is due to motherhood.

  • هی تو مادر را چرا کشتی بگو ** او چه کرد آخر بگو ای زشت خو
  • Hey, tell (me) why you killed your mother. What did she do? Pray, tell (me), O foul villain!”

  • گفت کاری کرد کان عار وی است ** کشتمش کان خاک ستار وی است‏
  • He said, “She did a deed that is a disgrace to her; I killed her because that earth (her grave) is her coverer (hides her shame).”

  • گفت آن کس را بکش ای محتشم ** گفت پس هر روز مردی را کشم‏ 780
  • The other said, “O honoured sir, kill that one (who was her partner in guilt).” “Then,” he replied, “I should kill a man every day.