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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)’;
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تو به سه سنگ و فلاخن آمدی ** صد هزاران مرد را بر هم زدی
- Thou camest with three pebbles and a sling and didst rout a hundred thousand men:
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سنگهایت صدهزاران پاره شد ** هر یکی هر خصم را خون‌خواره شد
- Thy pebbles broke into a hundred thousand pieces, and each one drank the blood of an enemy.
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آهن اندر دست تو چون موم شد ** چون زره‌سازی ترا معلوم شد
- Iron became as wax in thy hand when the (craft of) fashioning coats of mail was made known to thee.
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کوهها با تو رسایل شد شکور ** با تو می‌خوانند چون مقری زبور
- The mountains became thy thankful. accompanists: they chant the psalms with thee, as one who teaches the recitation of theQur’an.
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صد هزاران چشم دل بگشاده شد ** از دم تو غیب را آماده شد 2500
- Hundreds of thousands of spiritual eyes were opened and through thy breath were made ready for (contemplation of) the Unseen;
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و آن قوی‌تر زان همه کین دایمست ** زندگی بخشی که سرمد قایمست
- And that (miracle) is stronger than all those (others), for this one is lasting: thou bestowest the life that is enduring for ever.’!
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جان جمله‌ی معجزات اینست خود ** کو ببخشد مرده را جان ابد
- This indeed is the soul of all miracles, that it (the miracle) should bestow everlasting life on the (spiritually) dead.