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گفت کی بیرون شدند از شهر ری ** ماند حیران آن امیر سست پی 395
- He (the King) asked, “When did they set out from the city of Rayy?” The dull-witted Amír remained (silent) in perplexity.
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هم‌چنین تا سی امیر و بیشتر ** سست‌رای و ناقص اندر کر و فر
- So (it went on) till thirty Amírs and more (had been tested): (all were) feeble in judgement and deficient in (mental) power.
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گفت امیران را که من روزی جدا ** امتحان کردم ایاز خویش را
- (Then) he said to the Amírs, “One day I put my Ayáz to the test separately,
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که بپرس از کاروان تا از کجاست ** او برفت این جمله وا پرسید راست
- Saying, ‘Inquire of the caravan (and find out) whence it comes.’ He went and asked all these questions (just) right.
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بی‌وصیت بی‌اشارت یک به یک ** حالشان دریافت بی ریبی و شک
- Without instructions, without a hint (from me), he apprehended everything concerning them, point by point, without any uncertainty or doubt.”
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هر چه زین سی میر اندر سی مقام ** کشف شد زو آن به یکدم شد تمام 400
- Everything that was discovered by these thirty Amírs in thirty stages was completed by him (Ayáz) in one moment.
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مدافعه‌ی امرا آن حجت را به شبهه‌ی جبریانه و جواب دادن شاه ایشان را
- How the Amírs endeavoured to rebut that argument by the Necessitarian error and how the King answered them.
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پس بگفتند آن امیران کین فنیست ** از عنایتهاش کار جهد نیست
- Then the Amírs said, “This is a branch (species) of His (God's) providential favours: it has nothing to do with (personal) effort.
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قسمت حقست مه را روی نغز ** داده‌ی بختست گل را بوی نغز
- The fair face of the moon is bestowed on it by God, the sweet scent of the rose is the gift of Fortune.”
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گفت سلطان بلک آنچ از نفس زاد ** ریع تقصیرست و دخل اجتهاد
- “Nay,” said the Sultan, “that which proceeds from one's self is the product of (one's own) remissness and the income derived from (one's own) labour.
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ورنه آدم کی بگفتی با خدا ** ربنا انا ظلمنا نفسنا
- Otherwise, how should Adam have said unto God, ‘O our Lord, verily we have wronged ourselves’?