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دیو الحاح غوایت می‌کند ** شیخ‌الحاح هدایت می‌کند
- The Devil persists to (seducing to) error; the Shaykh persists in guiding aright.
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چون پیاپی گشت آن امر شجون ** نیل می‌آمد سراسر جمله خون 3590
- When that grievous command (of God) proceeded step by step (pursued its course), the whole Nile was turned into blood from end to end,
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تا بنفس خویش فرعون آمدش ** لابه می‌کردش دو تا گشته قدش
- Till (at last) Pharaoh came in person to him (Moses), humbly entreating him, his tall figure bent double,
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کانچ ما کردیم ای سلطان مکن ** نیست ما را روی ایراد سخن
- And said, “O (spiritual) sovereign, do not that which we did we have not the face to offer words (of excuse).
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پاره پاره گردمت فرمان‌پذیر ** من بعزت خوگرم سختم مگیر
- I will become obedient to thy command with every bit (of my body); I am accustomed to be held in honour: do not deal hardly with me.
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هین بجنبان لب به رحمت ای امین ** تا ببندد این دهانه‌ی آتشین
- Hark, move thy lips in mercy, O trusted one, that it (thy prayer) may shut this fiery mouth (of Divine anger).”
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گفت یا رب می‌فریبد او مرا ** می‌فریبد او فریبنده‌ی ترا 3595
- He (Moses) said, “O Lord, he is deceiving me; he is deceiving Thy deceiver.
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بشنوم یا من دهم هم خدعه‌اش ** تا بداند اصل را آن فرع‌کش
- Shall I hearken (to him) or shall I too give him deceit (in return), in order that that puller of the branch may recognise the root?
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که اصل هر مکری و حیلت پیش ماست ** هر چه بر خاکست اصلش از سماست
- For the root (origin) of every cunning and contrivance is with use: whatsoever is on the earth, its root (origin) is from Heaven.”
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گفت حق آن سگ نیرزد هم به آن ** پیش سگ انداز از دور استخوان
- God said (to Moses), “That cur (Pharaoh) is not worth even that: fling a bone to the cur from a distance.