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گفت با خود آنچ کردم با کسان ** شد جزای آن به جان من رسان
- He said to himself, “The retribution for what I did to certain persons has reached (overtaken) my soul.
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قصد جفت دیگران کردم ز جاه ** بر من آمد آن و افتادم به چاه
- From (pride of) power I made an attempt on the concubine of another: that (injustice) recoiled upon me and I fell into the pit (which I had dug).
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من در خانه‌ی کسی دیگر زدم ** او در خانه‌ی مرا زد لاجرم
- I knocked at the door of another person's house: consequently he knocked at the door of my house.”
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هر که با اهل کسان شد فسق‌جو ** اهل خود را دان که قوادست او
- Whoever seeks to commit adultery with (other) people's wives, know that he is a pimp to his own wife;
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زانک مثل آن جزای آن شود ** چون جزای سیه مثلش بود 4000
- For that (adultery) is requited by the like, since the retribution for an evil act is an act like unto it.
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چون سبب کردی کشیدی سوی خویش ** مثل آن را پس تو دیوثی و بیش
- Inasmuch as you have made a cord and pulled one like it towards yourself, you are a wittol and worse.
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غصب کردم از شه موصل کنیز ** غصب کردند از من او را زود نیز
- “I took the king of Mawsil's concubine from him by force, (so) she was soon taken by force from me too.
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او کامین من بد و لالای من ** خاینش کرد آن خیانتهای من
- My treacherous deeds made a traitor of him who was my trusted friend and servant.
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نیست وقت کین‌گزاری و انتقام ** من به دست خویش کردم کار خام
- ’Tis no time to inflict punishment (for the injury) and avenge myself: I prepared the disaster with my own hand.
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گر کشم کینه بر آن میر و حرم ** آن تعدی هم بیاید بر سرم 4005
- If I wreak vengeance on the Amír and the woman, that trespass also will come (recoil) on my head,