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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.
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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!”
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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).”
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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.
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کشتم او را رستم از خونهای خلق ** نای او برم به است از نای خلق
- I killed her, I was saved from shedding the blood of a multitude: ’tis better that I cut her throat than the throats of (so many) people.”
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نفس تست آن مادر بد خاصیت ** که فساد اوست در هر ناحیت
- That mother of bad character, whose wickedness is in every quarter, is your fleshly soul.
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هین بکش او را که بهر آن دنی ** هر دمی قصد عزیزی میکنی
- Come, kill it, for on account of that vile (creature) you are every moment assailing one who is venerable.
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از وی این دنیای خوش بر تست تنگ ** از پی او با حق و با خلق جنگ
- Through it this fair world is narrow (distressful) to you, for its sake (you are at) war with God and man.