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چون نبشتی بعضی از قصه‌ی هلال ** داستان بدر آر اندر مقال
- Since thou hast written part of the story of the New-moon (Hilál), (now) put into words the tale of the Full-moon.
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آن هلال و بدر دارند اتحاد ** از دوی دورند و از نقص و فساد
- The New-moon and the Full-moon have oneness (with each other): they are far from duality and from imperfection and corruption.
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آن هلال از نقص در باطن بریست ** آن به ظاهر نقص تدریج آوریست
- The new-moon is inwardly free from imperfection: its apparent imperfection is (due to its) increasing gradually.
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درس گوید شب به شب تدریج را ** در تانی بر دهد تفریج را 1210
- Night by night it gives a lesson in gradualness, and with deliberation it produces relief (for itself).
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در تانی گوید ای عجول خام ** پایه‌پایه بر توان رفتن به بام
- With deliberation it says, “O hasty fool, (only) step by step can one mount to the roof.”
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دیگ را تدریج و استادانه جوش ** کار ناید قلیه‌ی دیوانه جوش
- Let the cooking-pot boil gradually, as a skilful (cook) does: the stew boiled in a mad hurry is of no use.
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حق نه قادر بود بر خلق فلک ** در یکی لحظه به کن بی‌هیچ شک
- Was not God able to create heaven in one moment by (the word) “Be”? Without any doubt (He was).
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پس چرا شش روز آن را درکشید ** کل یوم الف عام ای مستفید
- Why, then, O seeker of instruction, did He extend (the time) for it to six days, every day (being as long as) a thousand years?
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خلقت طفل از چه اندر نه مه‌است ** زانک تدریج از شعار آن شه‌است 1215
- Wherefore is the creation of a child (completed) in nine months? Because gradualness is a characteristic of (the action of) that King.
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خلقت آدم چرا چل صبح بود ** اندر آن گل اندک‌اندک می‌فزود
- Why was (the time occupied in) the creation of Adam forty mornings? (Because) He (God) was adding (perfections) to that clay little by little,