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ضربت فرعون ما را نیست ضیر ** لطف حق غالب بود بر قهر غیر
- (The magicians said), “The punishment inflicted by Pharaoh is no harm to us: the grace of God prevails over the violence of (all) others.
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گر بدانی سر ما را ای مضل ** می‌رهانیمان ز رنج ای کوردل
- If thou shouldst (come to) know our secret, O misleader, (thou wouldst see that) thou art delivering us from pain, O man whose heart is blind.
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هین بیا زین سو ببین کین ارغنون ** می‌زند یا لیت قومی یعلمون
- Hark, come and from this quarter behold this organ pealing ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’
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داد ما را داد حق فرعونیی ** نه چو فرعونیت و ملکت فانیی
- God's bounty hath bestowed on us a Pharaohship, (but) not a perishable one like thy Pharaohship and kingdom.
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سر بر آر و ملک بین زنده و جلیل ** ای شده غره به مصر و رود نیل 4125
- Lift up thy head and behold the living and majestic kingdom, O thou who hast been deluded by Egypt and the river Nile.
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گر تو ترک این نجس خرقه کنی ** نیل را در نیل جان غرقه کنی
- If thou wilt take leave of this filthy tattered cloak, thou wilt drown the (bodily) Nile in the Nile of the spirit.
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هین بدار از مصر ای فرعون دست ** در میان مصر جان صد مصر هست
- Hark, O Pharaoh, hold thy hand from (renounce) Egypt: there are a hundred Egypts within the Egypt of the Spirit.
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تو انا رب همی‌گویی به عام ** غافل از ماهیت این هر دو نام
- Thou sayest to the vulgar, ‘I am a Lord,’ being unaware of the essential natures of both these names.
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رب بر مربوب کی لرزان بود ** کی انادان بند جسم و جان بود
- How should a Lord be trembling (with hope or fear) for that which is lorded over? How should one who knows ‘I’ be in bondage to body and soul?
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نک انا ماییم رسته از انا ** از انای پر بلای پر عنا 4130
- Lo, we are (the real) ‘I,’ having been freed from (the unreal) ‘I,’ from the ‘I’ that is full of tribulation and trouble.