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گر بطراری کند پس دو گواه ** جرح شد در محکمه‌ی عدل اله
- If he act as a cutpurse (from self-interest), then the two witnesses are invalidated in the court of Divine justice.
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هست صیاد ار کند دانه نثار ** نه ز رحم و جود بل بهر شکار
- He is a fowler if he scatter grain not from mercy and munificence but in order to catch (the birds).
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هست گربه‌ی روزه‌دار اندر صیام ** خفته کرده خویش بهر صید خام
- He is a cat keeping the fast and feigning to be asleep at fast-time for the purpose of (seizing) his ignorant prey.
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کرده بدظن زین کژی صد قوم را ** کرده بدنام اهل جود و صوم را
- By this unrighteousness he makes a hundred parties (of people) suspicious, he causes the generous and abstinent to be in ill repute.
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فضل حق با این که او کژ می‌تند ** عاقبت زین جمله پاکش می‌کند 195
- (But) notwithstanding that he weaves crookedly, in the end the grace of God will purge him of all this (hypocrisy).
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سبق برده رحمتش وان غدر را ** داده نوری که نباشد بدر را
- His (God's) mercy takes precedence (over His wrath) and bestows on that treachery (hypocrisy) a light that the full-moon does not possess.
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کوششش را شسته حق زین اختلاط ** غسل داده رحمت او را زین خباط
- God cleanses his effort of this contamination: the (Divine) Mercy washes him clean of this folly.
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تا که غفاری او ظاهر شود ** مغفری کلیش را غافر شود
- In order that His great forgivingness may be made manifest, a helmet (of forgiveness) will cover his (the hypocrite's) baldness.
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آب بهر این ببارید از سماک ** تا پلیدان را کند از خبث پاک
- The water rained from heaven, that it might cleanse the impure of their defilement.
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پاک کردن آب همه پلیدیها را و باز پاک کردن خدای تعالی آب را از پلیدی لاجرم قدوس آمد حق تعالی
- How the water cleanses all impurities and then is cleansed of impurity by God most High. Verily, God most High is exceeding holy.
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آب چون پیگار کرد و شد نجس ** تا چنان شد که آب را رد کرد حس 200
- When the water had done battle (in its task of ablution) and had been made dirty and had become such that the senses rejected it,