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که تانی هست از رحمان یقین ** هست تعجیلت ز شیطان لعین
- For deliberation is assuredly from the Merciful (God); thy haste is from the accursed Devil.”
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پیش سگ چون لقمه نان افکنی ** بو کند آنگه خورد ای معتنی
- When you throw a morsel of bread to a dog, he (first) smells, then he eats, O careful one.
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او ببینی بو کند ما با خرد ** هم ببوییمش به عقل منتقد
- He smells with the nose, we too (who are endowed) with wisdom smell it (the object submitted to us) with the purified intelligence.
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با تانی گشت موجود از خدا ** تابه شش روز این زمین و چرخها 3500
- This earth and the (heavenly) spheres were brought into existence by God with deliberation (extending) to six days;
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ورنه قادر بود کو کن فیکون ** صد زمین و چرخ آوردی برون
- Otherwise, He was able—“Be, and it is”—to bring forth a hundred earths and heavens (from non-existence).
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آدمی را اندک اندک آن همام ** تا چهل سالش کند مرد تمام
- Little by little till forty years (of age) that Potentate makes the human being a complete man,
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گرچه قادر بود کاندر یک نفس ** از عدم پران کند پنجاه کس
- Although He was able in a single moment to set flying (raise up) fifty persons from non-existence.
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عیسی قادر بود کو از یک دعا ** بی توقف بر جهاند مرده را
- Jesus by means of one prayer was able to make the dead spring up (to life) without delay:
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خالق عیسی بنتواند که او ** بی توقف مردم آرد تو بتو 3505
- Is the Creator of Jesus unable, without delay, to bring (full-grown) men in manifold succession (into existence)?
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این تانی از پی تعلیم تست ** که طلب آهسته باید بی سکست
- This deliberation is for the purpose of teaching you that you must seek (God) slowly without (any) break.