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سالها اندر میانشان حرب بود ** چون ز حد رفت و ملولی می‌فزود
- Between whom there was war for (many) years. When it passed (all) bounds and was causing excessive weariness,
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آب دریا را حکم سازید حق ** تا که ماند کی برد زین دو سبق
- God made the water of the sea His arbiter, that it might be left (to the sea to decide) which of these two should prevail.
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هم‌چنان تا دور و طور مصطفی ** با ابوجهل آن سپهدار جفا 2165
- So (it went on) till the period and time of Mustafá (Mohammed), (who contended) with Abú Jahl, the general of the army of iniquity.
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هم نکر سازید از بهر ثمود ** صیحه‌ای که جانشان را در ربود
- Moreover He (God) appointed a servant for (the destruction of) Thamúd, (namely), the (awful) Cry that took away their lives.
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هم نکر سازید بهر قوم عاد ** زود خیزی تیزرو یعنی که باد
- Moreover He appointed a servant for (the destruction of) the people of ‘Ád, one that rises quickly and moves rapidly, that is (to say), the Wind.
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هم نکر سازید بر قارون ز کین ** در حلیمی این زمین پوشید کین
- Moreover He appointed a discerning servant for (the destruction of) Qárún (Korah): He endued the graciousness of the Earth with enmity,
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تا حلیمی زمین شد جمله قهر ** برد قارون را و گنجش را به قعر
- So that the graciousness of the Earth turned entirely to wrath, and she bore Qárún and his treasure down to the abyss.
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لقمه‌ای را که ستون این تنست ** دفع تیغ جوع نان چون جوشنست 2170
- In the case of the food that is a pillar (support) for this body, bread is like a breastplate to repel the sword of hunger;
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چونک حق قهری نهد در نان تو ** چون خناق آن نان بگیرد در گلو
- (Yet) when God puts a (motive of) wrath into your bread, that bread will stick in your gullet (and choke you) like a quinsy.
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این لباسی که ز سرما شد مجیر ** حق دهد او را مزاج زمهریر
- This garment that protects you from the cold—God gives it the temperature of intense frost,