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جامه خواب پر حدث را یک فضول ** قاصدا آورد در پیش رسول
- A meddlesome fellow purposely brought the dirty bed-clothes to the Prophet,
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که چنین کردست مهمانت ببین ** خنده‌ای زد رحمةللعالمین
- Saying, “Look! Thy guest has done such a thing!” He smiled, (he who was sent as) a mercy to all created beings,
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که بیار آن مطهره اینجا به پیش ** تا بشویم جمله را با دست خویش
- And said, “Bring the pail here, that I may wash all (clean) with my own hand.”
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هر کسی می‌جست کز بهر خدا ** جان ما و جسم ما قربان ترا 110
- Every one jumped up, saying, “For God's sake (refrain)! Our souls and our bodies are a sacrifice to thee.
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ما بشوییم این حدث را تو بهل ** کار دستست این نمط نه کار دل
- We will wash this filth: do thou leave it alone. This kind (of affair) is hand's work, not heart's work.
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ای لعمرک مر ترا حق عمر خواند ** پس خلیفه کرد و بر کرسی نشاند
- O La-‘amruk, God pronounced unto thee (the word) ‘life’; then He made thee (His) Vicegerent and seated thee on the throne.
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ما برای خدمت تو می‌زییم ** چون تو خدمت می‌کنی پس ما چه‌ایم
- We live for thy service: as thou (thyself) art performing the service, what then are we?”
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گفت آن دانم و لیک این ساعتیست ** که درین شستن بخویشم حکمتیست
- He said, “I know that, but this is an (extraordinary) occasion; I have a deep reason for washing this myself.”
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منتظر بودند کین قول نبیست ** تا پدید آید که این اسرار چیست 115
- They waited, saying, “This is the Prophet's word,” till it should appear what these mysteries were.
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او به جد می‌شست آن احداث را ** خاص ز امر حق نه تقلید و ریا
- (Meanwhile) he was busily washing those filthy things, by God's command exclusively, not from blind conformity and ostentation;