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تو همی‌دانی و شبهای دراز ** که همی‌خواندم ترا با صد نیاز
- Thou knowest (the truth), and the long nights (know it) during which I was calling unto Thee with a hundred supplications.
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پیش خلق این را اگر خود قدر نیست ** پیش تو همچون چراغ روشنیست 2375
- Albeit this (supplication) has no worth in the sight of the people, in Thy sight it is like a shining lamp.”
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شنیدن داود علیه السلام سخن هر دو خصم وسال کردن از مدعی علیه
- How David, on whom be peace, heard what both the litigants had to say, and interrogated the defendant.
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چونک داود نبی آمد برون ** گفت هین چونست این احوال چون
- When the prophet David came forth, he asked, "What is all this about? What is the matter?"
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مدعی گفت ای نبی الله داد ** گاو من در خانه او در فتاد
- The plaintiff said, “O prophet of God, (give me) justice! My cow strayed into his house.
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کشت گاوم را بپرسش که چرا ** گاو من کشت او بیان کن ماجرا
- He killed my cow. Ask him why he killed my cow, and (bid him) explain what happened.”
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گفت داودش بگو ای بوالکرم ** چون تلف کردی تو ملک محترم
- David said to him (the poor man), “Speak, O noble one! How did you destroy the property of this honourable person?
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هین پراکنده مگو حجت بیار ** تا به یک سو گردد این دعوی و کار 2380
- Take care! Do not talk incoherently, (but) bring forward (your) plea, in order that this claim and cause may be (settled and) laid aside.”
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گفت ای داود بودم هفت سال ** روز و شب اندر دعا و در سال
- He said, “O David, for seven years I was (engaged) day and night in invocation and entreaty.
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این همی‌جستم ز یزدان کای خدا ** روزیی خواهم حلال و بی عنا
- This (is what) I was seeking from God: ‘O God, (I said), I want a means of livelihood (that will be) lawful and without trouble (on my part).’
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مرد و زن بر ناله من واقف‌اند ** کودکان این ماجرا را واصف‌اند
- (Both) men and women are acquainted with my lamentation; the children (can) describe this happening.
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تو بپرس از هر که خواهی این خبر ** تا بگوید بی شکنجه بی ضرر
- Ask whomsoever thou wilt for information about this, so that he may tell (thee) without torture and without (suffering) harm.
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هم هویدا پرس و هم پنهان ز خلق ** که چه می‌گفت این گدای ژنده‌دلق 2385
- Inquire of the people both and secretly what this beggar with the tattered cloak used to say.
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بعد این جمله دعا و این فغان ** گاوی اندر خانه دیدم ناگهان
- After all this invocation and outcry, suddenly I saw a cow in my house.
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چشم من تاریک شد نه بهر لوت ** شادی آن که قبول آمد قنوت
- My eye became dim, not on account of the food, (but) for joy that the supplication had been accepted.
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کشتم آن را تا دهم در شکر آن ** که دعای من شنود آن غیب‌دان
- I killed her that I might give (alms) in thankfulness that He who knoweth things unseen had hearkened to my prayer.”
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حکم کردن داود علیه السلام برکشنده‌ی گاو
- How David, on whom be peace, gave judgement against the slayer of the cow.
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گفت داود این سخنها را بشو ** حجت شرعی درین دعوی بگو
- David said, “Wipe out these words and declare (set forth) a legal plea in this dispute.
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تو روا داری که من بی حجتی ** بنهم اندر شهر باطل سنتی 2390
- Do you deem it allowable that, without any (such) plea, I should establish a wring ordinance in the city?
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این کی بخشیدت خریدی وارثی ** ریع را چون می‌ستانی حارثی
- Who gave you this (cow)? Did you buy or inherit her? How will you take the crop? Are you the farmer?
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کسب را همچون زراعت دان عمو ** تا نکاری دخل نبود آن تو
- Know, uncle, that the acquisition (of property) is like agriculture: unless you sow (the land), the produce does not belong to you;
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آنچ کاری بدروی آن آن تست ** ورنه این بی‌داد بر تو شد درست
- For you reap what you sow: that is yours. Otherwise, this act of injustice is proved against you.
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رو بده مال مسلمان کژ مگو ** رو بجو وام و بده باطل مجو
- Go, pay the Moslem’s money, and don’t speak falsely. Go, try to borrow (the money), and pay (it to him), and don’t seek (to do) wrong.”
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گفت ای شه تو همین می‌گوییم ** که همی‌گویند اصحاب ستم 2395
- “O King,” he replied, “thou art saying to me the same thing as the oppressors say.”
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تضرع آن شخص از داوری داود علیه السلام
- How that person earnestly appealed (to God) against the judgement of David, on whom be peace.
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سجده کرد و گفت کای دانای سوز ** در دل داود انداز آن فروز
- He prostrated himself and said, “O Thou who knowest (my inward) ardour, cast that flame into the heart of David!
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در دلش نه آنچ تو اندر دلم ** اندر افکندی براز ای مفضلم
- Put in his heart that which Thou hast secretly let fall into mine, O my Benefactor!”
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این بگفت و گریه در شد های های ** تا دل داود بیرون شد ز جای
- He said this and began to weep with loud cries of lamentation, so that David’s heart was moved exceedingly’.