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هم بدان تیغش بفرمود او قصاص ** کی کند مکرش ز علم حق خلاص
- He ordered retaliation (by killing him) with that same knife: how should contrivance deliver him from the knowledge of God?
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حلم حق گرچه مواساها کند ** لیک چون از حد بشد پیدا کند
- Although God’s clemency bestows (many) kindnesses, yet when he (the sinner) has gone beyond bounds, He exposes (him).
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خون نخسپد درفتد در هر دلی ** میل جست و جوی و کشف مشکلی
- Blood sleepeth not: the desire to investigate and lay bare (discover the solution of) a difficulty falls into every heart.
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اقتضای داوری رب دین ** سر بر آرد از ضمیر آن و این
- The craving prompted by the ordainment of the Lord of the Judgement springs up in the conscience of all and sundry
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کان فلان چون شد چه شد حالش چه گشت ** همچنانک جوشد از گلزار کشت 2490
- (So that they ask), “How was it with such-and-such? What happened to him? What became of him? “—just as the sown seed shoots up from the loam.
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جوشش خون باشد آن وا جستها ** خارش دلها و بحث و ماجرا
- Those inquiries, the pricking of (conscience in men’s) beans and the investigation and discussion, are the stirring of the (murdered man’s) blood.
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چونک پیداگشت سر کار او ** معجزه داود شد فاش و دوتو
- When the mystery of his (the murderer’s) case had been divulged, David’s miracles became doubly manifest
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خلق جمله سر برهنه آمدند ** سر به سجده بر زمینها می‌زدند
- All the people came bare-headed and cast their heads in prostration on the earth,
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ما همه کوران اصلی بوده‌ایم ** از تو ما صد گون عجایب دیده‌ایم
- (Saying), “We all have been (as those who are) blind from birth, (though) we have seen from thee marvels of a hundred kinds.
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سنگ با تو در سخن آمد شهیر ** کز برای غزو طالوتم بگیر 2495
- The stone came to speech with thee overtly, and said, ‘Take me for Saul’s expedition (against Goliath)’;