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چون قمر که امر بشنید و شتافت ** پس دو نیمه گشت بر چرخ و شکافت
- (And) as the moon, which heard the (Divine) command and hastened (to obey) and then became two halves in the sky and split;
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چون درخت و سنگ کاندر هر مقام ** مصطفی را کرده ظاهرالسلام
- (And) as the trees and stones which everywhere overtly made the salaam to Mustafá (Mohammed).
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جواب دهری کی منکر الوهیت است و عالم را قدیم میگوید
- Reply to the materialist who disbelieves in the Deity and says that the world is eternal.
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دی یکی میگفت عالم حادثست ** فانیست این چرخ و حقش وارثست
- Yesterday some one was saying, “The world is originated in time: this heaven is passing away, and God is its inheritor.”
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فلسفیی گفت چون دانی حدوث ** حادثی ابر چون داند غیوث
- A philosopher said, “How do you know (its) temporal origin? How should the rain know the temporality of the cloud?
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ذرهای خود نیستی از انقلاب ** تو چه میدانی حدوث آفتاب 2835
- You are not even a mote of the (celestial) revolution: how should you know the temporality of the sun?
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کرمکی کاندر حدث باشد دفین ** کی بداند آخر و بدو زمین
- The little worm that is buried in filth—how should it know the end and beginning of the earth?
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این به تقلید از پدر بشنیدهای ** از حماقت اندرین پیچیدهای
- You have heard this by rote from your father: through foolishness you have become involved in this (belief).
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چیست برهان بر حدوث این بگو ** ورنه خامش کن فزون گویی مجو
- What is the demonstrative argument for its temporality? Tell (me) or else keep silence and do not seek (indulge in) excessive talk.”
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گفت دیدم اندرین بحث عمیق ** بحث میکردند روزی دو فریق
- He said, “One day I saw two parties searching in this deep sea,
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در جدال و در خصام و در ستوه ** گشت هنگامه بر آن دو کس گروه 2840
- (Engaged) in disputation and controversy and desperate battle: a crowd gathered round those two persons.