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میگریزی از جفاهای پدر ** در میان لوطیان و شور و شر 4110
- Thou art fleeing from thy father's unkindnesses into the midst of scoundrels and mischief and trouble.
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میگریزی همچو یوسف ز اندهی ** تا ز نرتع نلعب افتی در چهی
- Like Joseph, thou art fleeing from one sorrow to fall into a well (of woe) through (being beguiled by) “let us frolic and play.”
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در چه افتی زین تفرج همچو او ** مر ترا لیک آن عنایت یار کو
- Because of this pastime thou fallest into a well, like him; but where is the (Divine) favour to help thee (as it helped him)?
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گر نبودی آن به دستوری پدر ** برنیاوردی ز چه تا حشر سر
- Had it not been (done) by his father's leave, he would never have emerged from the well till the Resurrection;
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آن پدر بهر دل او اذن داد ** گفت چون اینست میلت خیر باد
- (But) in order to please him his father gave the permission and said, “Since this is thy desire, may good come (of it)!”
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هر ضریری کز مسیحی سر کشد ** او جهودانه بماند از رشد 4115
- Any blind man who turns away in scorn from a Messiah will be left, like the Jews, without guidance;
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قابل ضو بود اگر چه کور بود ** شد ازین اعراض او کور و کبود
- (For) though he was blind, he was capable of receiving light; (but) from showing this aversion he becomes blind and blue (miserably lost).
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گویدش عیسی بزن در من دو دست ** ای عمی کحل عزیزی با منست
- Jesus says to him, “O blind man, cling to me with both hands: I have a precious collyrium.
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از من ار کوری بیابی روشنی ** بر قمیص یوسف جان بر زنی
- If thou art blind, thou wilt obtain light from me and lay hold of the (sweet-scented) Joseph's shirt of the spirit.”
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کار و باری کت رسد بعد شکست ** اندر آن اقبال و منهاج رهست
- The (real) fortune and highway (of success) lies in the business that comes to thee after utter defeat (self-abasement).