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چشم سختش اشک‌ها باران کند ** منکران را درد الله‌خوان کند 4690
- His hard eye (now) sheds tears like rain: (only) pain causes the unbelievers to call unto God.
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چون دم مردان نپذرفتی ز مرد ** وحی حق را هین پذیرا شو ز درد
- Since thou hast not received the breath (inspiration) of (holy) men from a (holy) man, hark, receive the Divine inspiration from pain.
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باد گوید پیکم از شاه بشر ** گه خبر خیر آورم گه شوم و شر
- The wind says, “I am a messenger from the King of mankind: now I bring good news, now calamitous and bad;
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ز آنک مامورم امیر خود نیم ** من چو تو غافل ز شاه خود کیم
- For I am subject to command, I am not in command of myself: when am I forgetful, like thee, of my King?
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گر سلیمان‌وار بودی حال تو ** چون سلیمان گشتمی حمال تو
- If thy (spiritual) state resembled that of Solomon, I should have carried thee as (I carried) Solomon.
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عاریه‌ستم گشتمی ملک کفت ** کردمی بر راز خود من واقفت 4695
- I am (only) lent (to thee); I should have become a possession in thy hand: I should have made thee acquainted with my mystery.
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لیک چون تو یاغیی من مستعار ** می‌کنم خدمت ترا روزی سه چار
- But since thou art rebellious and I am (only) taken on loan to serve thee for three or four days,
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پس چو عادت سرنگونی‌ها دهم ** ز اسپه تو یاغیانه بر جهم
- Therefore I will lay thee low, like ‘Ád, and dash away in revolt from thy army,
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تا به غیب ایمان تو محکم شود ** آن زمان که ایمانت مایه‌ی غم شود
- In order that thy faith in the Unseen may become firm at the moment when thy faith is (only) a source of woe.”
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آن زمان خود جملگان مؤمن شوند ** آن زمان خود سرکشان بر سر دوند
- (For) at that moment, in sooth, all become believers: at that moment even the (most) headstrong run on their heads.