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چون شمارد جرم خود را و خطا ** محض بخشایش در آید در عطا
- When he recounts his sins and trespasses, the Pure Bounty begins to show munificence,
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کای ملایک باز آریدش به ما ** که بدستش چشم دل سوی رجا 1845
- Saying, “O angels, bring him back to Us, for his inward eye has (ever) been (turned) towards hope.
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لاابالی وار آزادش کنیم ** وآن خطاها را همه خط بر زنیم
- Like one who recks of naught, We will set him free and cancel all his trespasses.
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لا ابالی مر کسی را شد مباح ** کش زیان نبود ز غدر و از صلاح
- (To say) ‘I reck not’ is permitted to that One (alone) who loses nothing by perfidy and (gains nothing) by probity.
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آتشی خوش بر فروزیم از کرم ** تا نماند جرم و زلت بیش و کم
- We will kindle up a goodly fire of grace, in order that no sin and fault, great or small, may endure—
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آتشی کز شعله‌اش کمتر شرار ** می‌بسوزد جرم و جبر و اختیار
- Such a fire that the least spark of the flame thereof is consuming (all) sin and necessity and free-will.
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شعله در بنگاه انسانی زنیم ** خار را گلزار روحانی کنیم 1850
- We will set fire to the tenement of Man and make the thorns (in it) a spiritual garden of roses.
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ما فرستادیم از چرخ نهم ** کیمیا یصلح لکم اعمالکم
- We have sent from the Ninth Sphere (the highest Heaven) the elixir (namely), He will rectify for you your actions.”
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خود چه باشد پیش نور مستقر ** کر و فر اختیار بوالبشر
- What in sooth is Adam's (Man's) sovereignty and power of choice beside the Light of the Everlasting Abode?
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گوشت‌پاره آلت گویای او ** پیه‌پاره منظر بینای او
- His speaking organ is a piece of flesh; the seat of his vision is a piece of fat;