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خونی و غداری و حق‌ناشناس ** هم برین اوصاف خود می‌کن قیاس
- Thou art a murderer and treacherous and ungrateful: from just these qualities, forsooth, form a judgement (as to the rest).
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در غریبی خوار و درویش و خلق ** که ندانستی سپاس ما و حق
- (Thou art) in exile, despised and poor and threadbare, since thou didst not acknowledge gratitude and obligation to me.”
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گفت حاشا که بود با آن ملیک ** در خداوندی کسی دیگر شریک
- He (Moses) said, “Far be it that any other person should be a partner in Lordship with that King.
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واحد اندر ملک او را یار نی ** بندگانش را جز او سالار نی 2325
- (He is) One: He hath no associate in Kingship; His slaves have no master but Him.
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نیست خلقش را دگر کس مالکی ** شرکتش دعوی کند جز هالکی
- His creatures have no other owner: does any one claim partnership with Him except one that is doomed to perish?
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نقش او کردست و نقاش من اوست ** غیر اگر دعوی کند او ظلم‌جوست
- He hath made the design, He is my Designer; if another lay claim (to it), he is a seeker of iniquity.
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تو نتوانی ابروی من ساختن ** چون توانی جان من بشناختن
- Thou canst not fashion my eyebrow: how canst thou know my soul?
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بلک آن غدار و آن طاغی توی ** که کنی با حق دعوی دوی
- Nay, ’tis thou who art the traitor and the insolent one, for thou claimest duality with God.
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گر بکشتم من عوانی را به سهو ** نه برای نفس کشتم نه به لهو 2330
- If I inadvertently killed a ruffian, I killed (him) neither for self's sake nor in sport.
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من زدم مشتی و ناگاه اوفتاد ** آنک جانش خود نبد جانی بداد
- I struck (him) a blow with my fist, and he suddenly fell: one who really had no soul gave up a soul.