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بلک اغلب رنجها را چاره هست ** چون بجد جویی بیاید آن بدست
- Nay, most maladies have a cure: when you seek in earnest, it will come to hand.”
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مکرر کردن کافران حجتهای جبریانه را
- How the infidels repeated the Necessitarian arguments.
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قوم گفتند ای گروه این رنج ما ** نیست زان رنجی که بپذیرد دوا
- The people said, “O company (of prophets), this malady of ours is not one of those that admit of cure.
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سالها گفتید زین افسون و پند ** سخت‌تر می‌گشت زان هر لحظه بند
- For years ye uttered spells and admonitions of this kind, and by them our bondage was made sorer every moment.
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گر دوا را این مرض قابل بدی ** آخر از وی ذره‌ای زایل شدی
- If this disease were susceptible of cure, some particle of it would at last have been removed.
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سده چون شد آب ناید در جگر ** گر خورد دریا رود جایی دگر 2920
- When hepatitis occurs, water does not enter the liver: if he (the patient) should drink up the (whole) sea, it (the water) would go somewhere else;
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لاجرم آماس گیرد دست و پا ** تشنگی را نشکند آن استقا
- Consequently the hands and feet become swollen: that water-drinking does not defeat the thirst.”
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باز جواب انبیا علیهم السلام ایشان را
- How the prophets, on whom be peace, answered them again.
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انبیا گفتند نومیدی بدست ** فضل و رحمتهای باری بی‌حدست
- The prophets said, “Despair is wicked: the grace and the mercies of the Creator are infinite.
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از چنین محسن نشاید ناامید ** دست در فتراک این رحمت زنید
- ’Tis not proper to despair of such a Benefactor: cling to the saddle-strap of this Mercy.
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ای بسا کارا که اول صعب گشت ** بعد از آن بگشاده شد سختی گذشت
- Oh, many a plight became hard in the beginning, (but) afterwards it was relieved, and the hardship passed away.
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بعد نومیدی بسی اومیدهاست ** از پس ظلمت بسی خورشیدهاست 2925
- After despair there are many hopes; after darkness there are many suns.