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جز مگر آنها که نومیدند و دور ** همچو کفاری نهفته در قبور
- Except, maybe, them that are in despair and far (from God), (outcasts) like infidels hidden (buried) in graves,
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ناامید از هر دو عالم گشته‌اند ** خارهای بی‌نهایت کشته‌اند
- (Them that) have lost all hope of both worlds and have sown thorns without end.
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پس ز مستیها بگفتند ای دریغ ** بر زمین باران بدادیمی چو میغ
- Therefore they (Hárút and Márút), because of their feelings of intoxication, said, “Alas, we would rain upon the earth, like clouds;
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گستریدیمی درین بی‌داد جا ** عدل و انصاف و عبادات و وفا
- We would spread in this place of injustice (a carpet of) justice and equity and devotions and faithfulness.”
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این بگفتند و قضا می‌گفت بیست ** پیش پاتان دام ناپیدا بسیست 830
- This they said, and the Divine decree was saying (to them), “Stop! Before your feet there is many an unseen pitfall.”
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هین مدو گستاخ در دشت بلا ** هین مران کورانه اندر کربلا
- Beware, do not run boldly into the desert of woe! Beware, do not push on blindly into the Karbalá (of tribulation),
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که ز موی و استخوان هالکان ** می‌نیابد راه پای سالکان
- For because of the hair and bones of the perished the travellers' feet find no way.
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جمله‌ی راه استخوان و موی و پی ** بس که تیغ قهر لاشی کرد شی
- The whole way is (covered with) bones and hair and sinews: many is the thing that the sword of Vengeance hath made nothing.
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گفت حق که بندگان جفت عون ** بر زمین آهسته می‌رانند و هون
- God hath said that (His) servants (who are) attended by (His) help walk on the earth quietly and meekly.
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پا برهنه چون رود در خارزار ** جز بوقفه و فکرت و پرهیزگار 835
- How should a bare-footed man go into the thorn-thicket save with halting and reflection and cautiously?