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کای خدا خصم مرا خشنود کن ** گر منش کردم زیان تو سود کن
- “O God, content my adversary: if I have inflicted loss upon him (yet) do Thou bestow profit (upon me)!
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گر خطا کشتم دیت بر عاقله‌ست ** عاقله‌ی جانم تو بودی از الست 2470
- If T killed him by mistake, the (payment of the) blood-price falls on my kin: Thou hast been my spirit’s kin from (the Day of) Alast.”
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سنگ می‌ندهد به استغفار در ** این بود انصاف نفس ای جان حر
- He (God) does not give (worthless) stones in return for the pearls of contrition (nay), this, O noble spirit, is the justice of the fleshly soul.
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برون رفتن به سوی آن درخت
- How the people went forth to that tree.
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چون برون رفتند سوی آن درخت ** گفت دستش را سپس بندید سخت
- When they went forth to that tree, he (David) said, “Tie his hands fast behind him,
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تا گناه و جرم او پیدا کنم ** تا لوای عدل بر صحرا زنم
- In order that I may bring to light his sin and crime, and may plant the banner of justice on the field.
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گفت ای سگ جد او را کشته‌ای ** تو غلامی خواجه زین رو گشته‌ای
- O dog,” said he, “you have killed his grandfather. You are a slave: by this means you have become a lord.
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خواجه را کشتی و بردی مال او ** کرد یزدان آشکارا حال او 2475
- You killed your master and carried off his property: God bath made manifest what happened to him.
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آن زنت او را کنیزک بوده است ** با همین خواجه جفا بنموده است
- Your wife was his handmaid; she has acted unjustly towards this same master.
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هر چه زو زایید ماده یا که نر ** ملک وارث باشد آنها سر بسر
- Whatever (children) she bore to him, female or male—all of them from beginning to end are the property of the (master’s) heir.
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تو غلامی کسب و کارت ملک اوست ** شرع جستی شرع بستان رو نکوست
- You are a slave: your gains and goods are his property. You demanded the Law: take the Law and go: ‘tis well.