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هر که را سوزید دوزخ در قود ** من برویانم دگر بار از جسد
- Whomsoever Hell has consumed in vengeance, I cause him to grow anew from his body.”
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کار کوثر چیست که هر سوخته ** گردد از وی نابت و اندوخته
- What is the work of (that) Kawthar by which every one that has been burned (in Hell) is made to grow and becomes redintegrated?
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قطره قطره او منادی کرم ** کانچ دوزخ سوخت من باز آورم
- Drop by drop it proclaims its bounty, saying, “I restore that which Hell has consumed.”
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هست دوزخ هم‌چو سرمای خزان ** هست کوثر چون بهار ای گلستان 4170
- Hell is like the cold of autumn; Kawthar is like the spring, O rose-garden.
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هست دوزخ هم‌چو مرگ و خاک گور ** هست کوثر بر مثال نفخ صور
- Hell is like death and the earth of the grave; Kawthar resembles the blast of the trumpet (of Resurrection).
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ای ز دوزخ سوخته اجسامتان ** سوی کوثر می‌کشد اکرامتان
- O ye whose bodies are consumed by Hell, the kindness (of God) is leading you towards Kawthar.
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چون خلقت الخلق کی یربح علی ** لطف تو فرمود ای قیوم حی
- Since Thy mercy, O Self-subsistent Living One, said, “I created the creatures that they might profit by Me,”
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لالان اربح علیهم جود تست ** که شود زو جمله ناقصها درست
- (And since Thy saying) “Not that I might profit by them” is (the expression of) Thy munificence, by which all defective things are made whole,
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عفو کن زین بندگان تن‌پرست ** عفو از دریای عفو اولیترست 4175
- Pardon these body-worshipping slaves: pardon from (Thee who art) the ocean of pardon is more worthy.
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عفو خلقان هم‌چو جو و هم‌چو سیل ** هم بدان دریای خود تازند خیل
- Creaturely pardon is like a river and like a torrent: (all) the troop (of such pardons) run towards their ocean.