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کی رسد مر بنده را که با خدا ** آزمایش پیش آرد ز ابتلا
- How is it right for a servant (of God) to venture on an experiment with God by making trial (of Him)?
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بنده را کی زهره باشد کز فضول ** امتحان حق کند ای گیج گول 360
- How should a servant (of God) have the stomach vaingloriously to put Him to the test, O mad fool?
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آن خدا را می‌رسد کو امتحان ** پیش آرد هر دمی با بندگان
- To God (alone) belongs that (right), who brings forward a test for His servants at every moment,
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تا به ما ما را نماید آشکار ** که چه داریم از عقیده در سرار
- In order that He may show us plainly to ourselves (and reveal) what beliefs we hold in secret.
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هیچ آدم گفت حق را که ترا ** امتحان کردم درین جرم و خطا
- Did Adam ever say to God, “I made trial of Thee in (committing) this sin and trespass,
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تا ببینم غایت حلمت شها ** اه کرا باشد مجال این کرا
- That I might see the utmost limit of Thy clemency, O King?” Ah, who would be capable of (seeing) this, who?
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عقل تو از بس که آمد خیره‌سر ** هست عذرت از گناه تو بتر 365
- Forasmuch as your understanding is confused, your excuse is worse than your crime.
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آنک او افراشت سقف آسمان ** تو چه دانی کردن او را امتحان
- How can you make trial of Him who raised aloft the vault of heaven?
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ای ندانسته تو شر و خیر را ** امتحان خود را کن آنگه غیر را
- O you that have not known good and evil, (first) make trial of yourself, and then of others.
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امتحان خود چو کردی ای فلان ** فارغ آیی ز امتحان دیگران
- When you have made trial of yourself, O such-and-such, you will be unconcerned with making trial of others.