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مصطفی را وعده کرد الطاف حق ** گر بمیری تو نمیرد این سبق
- The lovingkindnesses of God made a promise to Mustafá (Mohammed), saying, “If thou shalt die, (yet) this Lesson (the Qur’án) shall not die.
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من کتاب و معجزه‌ت را رافعم ** بیش و کم‌کن را ز قرآن مانعم
- I am exalting thy Book and Miracle, I am defending the Qur’án from those who would make it more or less.
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من ترا اندر دو عالم حافظم ** طاعنان را از حدیثت رافضم
- I am exalting thee in both worlds, I am driving away the scoffers from thy Tidings.
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کس نتاند بیش و کم کردن درو ** تو به از من حافظی دیگر مجو 1200
- None shall be able to make additions or omissions therein. Do not thou seek another protector better than Me.
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رونقت را روز روز افزون کنم ** نام تو بر زر و بر نقره زنم
- Day by day I will increase thy splendour, I will strike thy name on gold and on silver.
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منبر و محراب سازم بهر تو ** در محبت قهر من شد قهر تو
- For thy sake I will prepare pulpit and prayer-niche: in (My) love (for thee) thy vengeance hath become My vengeance.
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نام تو از ترس پنهان می‌گوند ** چون نماز آرند پنهان می‌شوند
- They (thy followers), from fear, are uttering thy name covertly and hiding when they perform their prayers;
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از هراس وترس کفار لعین ** دینت پنهان می‌شود زیر زمین
- From terror and dread of the accursed infidels thy Religion is being hidden underground;
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من مناره پر کنم آفاق را ** کور گردانم دو چشم عاق را 1205
- (But) I will fill the world, from end to end, with minarets; I will make blind the eyes of the recalcitrant.
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چاکرانت شهرها گیرند و جاه ** دین تو گیرد ز ماهی تا به ماه
- Thy servants will occupy cities and (seize) power: thy Religion will extend from the Fish to the Moon.
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تا قیامت باقیش داریم ما ** تو مترس از نسخ دین ای مصطفی
- We shall keep it living until the Resurrection: be not thou afraid of the annulment of the Religion, O Mustafá.
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ای رسول ما تو جادو نیستی ** صادقی هم‌خرقه‌ی موسیستی
- O My Messenger, thou art not a sorcerer: thou art truthful, thou wearest the mantle of Moses.
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هست قرآن مر تو را همچون عصا ** کفرها را در کشد چون اژدها
- To thee the Qur’án is even as the rod (of Moses): it swallows up (all) infidelities, like a dragon.
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تو اگر در زیر خاکی خفته‌ای ** چون عصایش دان تو آنچ گفته‌ای 1210
- If thou sleepest beneath a sod, (yet) deem as his rod that which thou hast spoken (My Word).
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قاصدان را بر عصایش دست نی ** تو بخسپ ای شه مبارک خفتنی
- Assailants have no power over his rod. Do thou (then) sleep, O King, a blessed sleep!
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تن بخفته نور تو بر آسمان ** بهر پیکار تو زه کرده کمان
- (Whilst) thy body is asleep (in the tomb), thy Light in Heaven hath strung a bow for thy war (against the infidels).
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فلسفی و آنچ پوزش می‌کند ** قوس نورت تیردوزش می‌کند
- The philosopher and that which his mouth doeth—the bow of thy Light is piercing him (and it) with arrows.”
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آنچنان کرد و از آن افزون که گفت ** او بخفت و بخت و اقبالش نخفت
- Thus He did, and (even) more than He said: he (the Prophet) slept (the sleep of death), but his fortune and prosperity slumbered not.
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جان بابا چونک ساحر خواب شد ** کار او بی رونق و بی‌تاب شد 1215
- “O soul of thy father, when a magician goes to sleep, his work becomes tarnished and dim.”
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هر دو بوسیدند گورش را و تفت ** تا بمصر از بهر آن پیگار زفت
- Both (the magician's sons) kissed his grave and turned away (and came) to Egypt for the purpose of this mighty struggle.
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چون به مصر از بهر آن کار آمدند ** طالب موسی و خانه‌ی او شدند
- When they came to Egypt for the sake of that enterprise, they sought after Moses and his house.
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اتفاق افتاد کان روز ورود ** موسی اندر زیر نخلی خفته بود
- It chanced that on the day of their arrival Moses was asleep under a palm-tree,
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پس نشان دادندشان مردم بدو ** که برو آن سوی نخلستان بجو
- So the folk gave them a clue to him, saying, “Go, seek yonder in the direction of the palm-grove.”
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چون بیامد دید در خرمابنان ** خفته‌ای که بود بیدار جهان 1220
- When he (the magician's son) came (thither), he espied amongst the date trees a sleeper who was the wake fullest man in the world.
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بهر نازش بسته او دو چشم سر ** عرش و فرشش جمله در زیر نظر
- For pleasure's sake he had shut the two eyes of his head, (but) all Heaven and Earth were under his gaze.