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شد درخت کژ مقوم حق‌نما ** اصله ثابت و فرعه فی‌السما
- The crooked tree has become straight, God-revealing: its root fixed (in the earth) and its branches in the sky.
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باقی قصه‌ی موسی علیه‌السلام
- The remainder of the story of Moses, on whom be peace.
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که آمدش پیغام از وحی مهم ** که کژی بگذار اکنون فاستقم 3575
- For there came to him from the peremptory Revelation a message, saying, “Put crookedness aside now, and be upright.”
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این درخت تن عصای موسیست ** که امرش آمد که بیندازش ز دست
- This tree of the body is (like) Moses’ rod, concerning which the (Divine) command came to him —“Let it fall from your hand,
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تا ببینی خیر او و شر او ** بعد از آن بر گیر او را ز امر هو
- That thou mayst behold its good and evil; after that, take it up (again) by command of Him.”
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پیش از افکندن نبود او غیر چوب ** چون به امرش بر گرفتی گشت خوب
- Before his dropping it, it was naught but wood; whenever he took it up by His command, it became goodly.
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اول او بد برگ‌افشان بره را ** گشت معجز آن گروه غره را
- At first it was shaking down leaves for the lambs; (afterwards) it reduced to impotence that deluded people.
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گشت حاکم بر سر فرعونیان ** آبشان خون کرد و کف بر سر زنان 3580
- It became ruler over the party of Pharaoh: it turned their water into blood and caused them to beat their heads with their hands.
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از مزارعشان برآمد قحط و مرگ ** از ملخهایی که می‌خوردند برگ
- From their sown fields arose famine and death on account of the locusts which devoured the leaves,
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تا بر آمد بی‌خود از موسی دعا ** چون نظر افتادش اندر منتها
- Till from Moses, when he considered the ultimate issue, there went up involuntarily a prayer (to God)
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کین همه اعجاز و کوشیدن چراست ** چون نخواهند این جماعت گشت راست
- “For what reason is all this disablement (of them) and striving (to convert them), since this multitude will never become righteous? ”