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کابلی جادو این دنیاست کو ** کرد مردان را اسیر رنگ و بو 3190
- The witch of Kábul is this World which made men captive to colour and perfume.
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چون در افکندت دریغ آلوده روذ ** دم به دم می‌خوان و می‌دم قل اعوذ
- Since she hath cast thee into this polluted stream, continually recite and utter (the words), Say, I take refuge.
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تا رهی زین جادوی و زین قلق ** استعاذت خواه از رب الفلق
- In order that thou mayst be delivered from this witchery and this distress, beg of the Lord of the daybreak that thou mayst say “I take refuge.”
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زان نبی دنیات را سحاره خواند ** کو به افسون خلق را در چه نشاند
- The Prophet called this world of thine an enchantress because through her spells she lodged mankind in the pit.
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هین فسون گرم دارد گنده پیر ** کرده شاهان را دم گرمش اسیر
- Beware! The stinking hag hath hot (potent) spells: her hot breath hath made kings captive.
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در درون سینه نفاثات اوست ** عقده‌های سحر را اثبات اوست 3195
- She is the witches who blow (on knots) within (thy) breast: she is the (means of) maintaining the knots of sorcery.
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ساحره‌ی دنیا قوی دانا زنیست ** حل سحر او به پای عامه نیست
- The sorceress, (who is) the World, is a mightily cunning woman: ’tis not in the power of the vulgar to undo her sorcery;
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ور گشادی عقد او را عقلها ** انبیا را کی فرستادی خدا
- And if (men's) understandings could loose her knot, how should God have sent the prophets?
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هین طلب کن خوش‌دمی عقده‌گشا ** رازدان یفعل الله ما یشا
- Hark, seek one whose breath is pure, a looser of knots, one who knows the mystery of God doeth whatso He willeth.
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هم‌چو ماهی بسته است او به شست ** شاه زاده ماند سالی و تو شصت
- She (the World) hath imprisoned thee, like a fish, in her net: the prince remained (there) one year, and thou sixty.