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چون ز قندیل آب و روغن گشته فاش ** یا چو خاکی که بروید سرهاش 1800
- As when the water and oil in a lamp are exposed to view, or like a piece of earth from which grow up the (seeds) deposited within.
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از پیاز و گندنا و کوکنار ** سر دی پیدا کند دست بهار
- From onion, leek, and poppy the hand of Spring reveals the secret of Winter—
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آن یکی سرسبز نحن المتقون ** وآن دگر هم‌چون بنفشه سرنگون
- One (party) fresh and green, saying, “We are the devout”; and the other drooping their heads like the violet,
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چشمها بیرون جهید از خطر ** گشته ده چشمه ز بیم مستقر
- Their eyes starting out (of the sockets) from (dread of) the danger, and streaming like ten fountains from fear of the appointed end;
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باز مانده دیده‌ها در انتظار ** تا که نامه ناید از سوی یسار
- Their eyes remaining in (fearful) expectation, lest the scroll (of their deeds) come (to them) from the left side;
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چشم گردان سوی راست و سوی چپ ** زانک نبود بخت نامه‌ی راست زپ 1805
- Their eyes rolling to right and left, because the fortune of the scroll (that comes) from the right (side) is not easy (to win).
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نامه‌ای آید به دست بنده‌ای ** سر سیه از جرم و فسق آگنده‌ای
- (Then) there comes into the hand of (such) a servant (of God) a scroll headed with black and cram-full of crime and wickedness;
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اندرو یک خیر و یک توفیق نه ** جز که آزار دل صدیق نه
- Containing not a single good deed or act of saving grace— nothing but wounds inflicted on the hearts of the saintly;
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پر ز سر تا پای زشتی و گناه ** تسخر و خنبک زدن بر اهل راه
- Filled from top to bottom with foulness and sin, with mockery and jeering at the followers of the Way,
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آن دغل‌کاری و دزدیهای او ** و آن چو فرعونان انا و انای او
- (With all) his rascalities and thieveries and Pharaoh-like expressions of self-glorification.