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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.
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خواجه را کشتی باستم زار زار ** هم برینجا خواجه گویان زینهار
- You killed your master miserably by violence, (whilst) your master was crying for mercy on this very spot.
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کارد از اشتاب کردی زیر خاک ** از خیالی که بدیدی سهمناک 2480
- In your haste you hid the knife under the soil, because of the terrible apparition which you beheld.
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نک سرش با کارد در زیر زمین ** باز کاوید این زمین را همچنین
- Lo, his head together with the knife is under the soil! Dig ye back the soil, thus!
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نام این سگ هم نبشته کارد بر ** کرد با خواجه چنین مکر و ضرر
- On the knife, too, the name of this dog is written, (who) dealt with his master so deceitfully and injuriously.”
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همچنان کردند چون بشکافتند ** در زمین آن کارد و سر را یافتند
- They did even so (as he ordered), and when they cleft (the earth) they found in the soil the knife and the head.