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  • کی بود که حلم گردد خشم نیز ** نیست این نادر ز لطفت ای عزیز
  • When (how) may it be that anger shall again become clemency? This is not extraordinary (as proceeding) from thy grace, O venerable one.

  • مدح حاضر وحشت است از بهر این ** نام موسی می‏برم قاصد چنین‏
  • To praise any one present is (a cause of) embarrassment; on this account I am purposely using the name of Moses, like this.

  • ور نه موسی کی روا دارد که من ** پیش تو یاد آورم از هیچ تن‏
  • Otherwise, how should Moses deem it right that I make mention of anybody before thee?

  • عهد ما بشکست صد بار و هزار ** عهد تو چون کوه ثابت برقرار 2495
  • Our covenant hath been broken hundreds and thousands of times; Thy covenant, like a mountain, stands firm and stable.

  • عهد ما کاه و به هر بادی زبون ** عهد تو کوه و ز صد که هم فزون‏
  • Our covenant is straw and subject to every wind (of passion); Thy covenant is a mountain, and even more than a hundred mountains.

  • حق آن قوت که بر تلوین ما ** رحمتی کن ای امیر لونها
  • By the truth of that power (which is Thine), have some mercy upon our mutability, O Ruler of (all) mutations!

  • خویش را دیدیم و رسوایی خویش ** امتحان ما مکن ای شاه بیش‏
  • We have seen ourselves (as we really are) and our shame. Put us not to further trial, O King,

  • تا فضیحت‏های دیگر را نهان ** کرده باشی ای کریم مستعان‏
  • So that (by sparing us) Thou wilt have concealed other disgraces, O Bounteous One whose help we implore!

  • بی‏حدی تو در جمال و در کمال ** در کژی ما بی‏حدیم و در ضلال‏ 2500
  • Thou art infinite in beauty and perfection; we are infinite in wrongness and error.

  • بی‏حدی خویش بگمار ای کریم ** بر کژی بی‏حد مشتی لئیم‏
  • Direct Thy infinity, O Bounteous One, upon the infinite wrongness of a handful of vile wretches (such as we are).

  • هین که از تقطیع ما یک تار ماند ** مصر بودیم و یکی دیوار ماند
  • Oh, come, for of our cloth-piece (only) a single thread remains we were a city, and (only) a single wall remains.

  • البقیه البقیه ای خدیو ** تا نگردد شاد کلی جان دیو
  • (Save) the remnant, (save) the remnant, O Sovereign, that the soul of the Devil may not rejoice entirely––

  • بهر ما نه بهر آن لطف نخست ** که تو کردی گمرهان را باز جست‏
  • Not for our sakes, (but) for the sake of the primal grace through which Thou didst seek out them that had lost the way.

  • چون نمودی قدرتت بنمای رحم ** ای نهاده رحمها در لحم و شحم‏ 2505
  • As Thou hast shown Thy power, (so now) show Thy mercy, O Thou who hast implanted feelings of mercy in flesh and fat.

  • این دعا گر خشم افزاید ترا ** تو دعا تعلیم فرما مهترا
  • If this prayer increase Thy wrath, do Thou teach (us) to pray, O Lord,

  • آن چنان کادم بیفتاد از بهشت ** رجعتش دادی که رست از دیو زشت‏
  • Even as, (when) Adam fell from Paradise, Thou gavest him (leave) to turn (in penitence) toward Thee, so that he escaped from the ugly Devil.”

  • دیو که بود کاو ز آدم بگذرد ** بر چنین نطعی از او بازی برد
  • Who is the Devil that he should surpass Adam and win the game from him on such a board?

  • در حقیقت نفع آدم شد همه ** لعنت حاسد شده آن دمدمه‏
  • In truth, it all turned out to Adam’s advantage: that guile became a curse to the envious one.

  • بازیی دید و دو صد بازی ندید ** پس ستون خانه‏ی خود را برید 2510
  • He (the Devil) saw one game, (but) he did not see two hundred games (which he should lose): therefore he cut down the supports of his own house.

  • آتشی زد شب به کشت دیگران ** باد آتش را به کشت او بران‏
  • He set fire by night to the cornfield of others; (meanwhile) O wind, drive the fire into his field!

  • چشم بندی بود لعنت دیو را ** تا زیان خصم دید آن ریو را
  • The (Divine) curse was a blind to the Devil, so that he regarded that trickery (of his) as harm to (his) enemy.

  • لعنت این باشد که کژبینش کند ** حاسد و خود بین و پر کینش کند
  • The (Divine) curse is that which makes him (any one) see falsely, and makes him envious, self-conceited, and malicious,

  • تا نداند که هر آن که کرد بد ** عاقبت باز آید و بر وی زند
  • To the end that he may not know that whoever does evil, it (that evil) will at last come back and smite him.

  • جمله فرزین بندها بیند بعکس ** مات بر وی گردد و نقصان و وکس‏ 2515
  • He sees all the master-moves invertedly: (hence) they result in check-mate to him and (in) failure and defeat.

  • ز انکه گر او هیچ بیند خویش را ** مهلک و ناسور بیند ریش را
  • (The curse blinds him), because, if he regard himself as naught, (if) he regard the wound (his moral and spiritual blindness) as deadly and festering,