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  • صد عنایت کردم و صد رابطه  ** تا ببیند لطف من بی‌واسطه 
  • (Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,

  • تا نباشد از سبب در کش‌مکش  ** تا بود هر استعانت از منش  4840
  • And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me,

  • ورنه تا خود هیچ عذری نبودش  ** شکوتی نبود ز هر یار بدش 
  • Or at least that he should have no excuse (for turning elsewhere) and no occasion to complain of any evil companion.

  • این حضانه دید با صد رابطه  ** که بپروردم ورا بی‌واسطه 
  • He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.

  • شکر او آن بود ای بنده‌ی جلیل  ** که شد او نمرود و سوزنده‌ی خلیل 
  • His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—

  • هم‌چنان کین شاه‌زاده شکر شاه  ** کرد استکبار و استکثار جاه 
  • Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,

  • که چرا من تابع غیری شوم  ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم  4845
  • Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”

  • لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت  ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت 
  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—

  • هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را  ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی 
  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).

  • این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند  ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند 
  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.