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غرهی شیرت بخواهد امتحان ** نقش شیر و آنگه اخلاق سگان
- The roar of the lion will demand from thee the test (of thy sincerity). The figure of a lion , and then the dispositions of dogs!
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تفسیر ولتعرفنهم فی لحن القول
- Explanation of (the text), And thou wilt surely know them in the perversion of their speech.
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گفت یزدان مر نبی را در مساق ** یک نشانی سهلتر ز اهل نفاق 790
- God said to the Prophet in the course (of the Qur’án), “One sign of the hypocritical is easier (to perceive than other signs):
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گر منافق زفت باشد نغز و هول ** وا شناسی مر ورا در لحن و قول
- Though the hypocrite be big, handsome, and terrible, thou wilt recognise him in his perverse enunciation and speech.”
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چون سفالین کوزهها را میخری ** امتحانی میکنی ای مشتری
- When you are buying earthenware pots, you make a trial, O purchaser.
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میزنی دستی بر آن کوزه چرا ** تا شناسی از طنین اشکسته را
- You give the pot a tap with your hand: why? In order that you may know the cracked one by the sound (which it makes).
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بانگ اشکسته دگرگون میبود ** بانگ چاووشست پیشش میرود
- The voice of the cracked one is different; the voice is a cháwúsh (beadle): it goes in front of it (the pot).
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بانگ میآید که تعریفش کند ** همچو مصدر فعل تصریفش کند 795
- The voice comes in order to make it known: it determines (the character of) it, as the verb (determines the form of) the masdar (verbal noun).
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چون حدیث امتحان رویی نمود ** یادم آمد قصهی هاروت زود
- When the subject of (Divine) probation cropped up, the story of Hárút at once came into my memory.
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قصهی هاروت و ماروت و دلیری ایشان بر امتحانات حق تعالی
- The Story of Hárút and Márút and their boldness in encountering the probations of God most High.
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پیش ازین زان گفته بودیم اندکی ** خود چه گوییم از هزارانش یکی
- Before this (occasion), we had told a little of it: what, indeed, should we tell? (We can tell only) one (item) of its thousands.
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خواستم گفتن در آن تحقیقها ** تا کنون وا ماند از تعویقها
- I wished to speak of the (spiritual) truths (contained) in it, (but) till now they have remained (untold) on account of hindrances.