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حاش لله ایش شاء الله کان ** حاکم آمد در مکان و لامکان
- God forfend! Whatsoever God wills shall come to pass. He is the Ruler over the worlds of space and non-spatiality.
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هیچ کس در ملک او بی‌امر او ** در نیفزاید سر یک تای مو
- Without His command no one in His kingdom shall add (so much as) the tip of a single hair.
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ملک ملک اوست فرمان آن او ** کمترین سگ بر در آن شیطان او
- The kingdom is His kingdom, the command is His: that Devil of His is the meanest dog at His door.
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ترکمان را گر سگی باشد به در ** بر درش بنهاده باشد رو و سر 2940
- If a Turcoman's dog is lying at the door (of the tent), with his face and head resting on the threshold,
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کودکان خانه دمش می‌کشند ** باشد اندر دست طفلان خوارمند
- (Though) the children of the house keep pulling his tail, he will be humble (submissive) in the children's hands.
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باز اگر بیگانه‌ای معبر کند ** حمله بر وی هم‌چو شیر نر کند
- If, however, a stranger pass by, he (the dog) will rush at him like a fierce lion;
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که اشداء علی الکفار شد ** با ولی گل با عدو چون خار شد
- For he is hard on the unbelievers: to a friend he is (as) the rose, to an enemy as the thorn.
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ز آب تتماجی که دادش ترکمان ** آنچنان وافی شدست و پاسبان
- He has become so faithful and vigilant on account of the tutmáj broth that the Turcoman has given him.
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پس سگ شیطان که حق هستش کند ** اندرو صد فکرت و حیلت تند 2945
- The dog, then, namely the Devil, whom God causes to exist and in whom He creates a hundred thoughts and cunning plans,
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آب روها را غذای او کند ** تا برد او آب روی نیک و بد
- And whom He feeds with (men's) honours, so that he takes away the honour of the virtuous and the wicked—