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کی گمان بردی که او عصیان کند ** آنک خوف جان فرعون آن کند
- How should he (Pharaoh) have thought that he (‘Imrán) would disobey (Pharaoh's orders) and do that which (was) the dread of Pharaoh's soul?
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جمع آمدن عمران به مادر موسی و حامله شدن مادر موسی علیهالسلام
- How ‘Imrán lay with the mother of Moses and how the mother of Moses, on him be peace, became pregnant.
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شب برفت و او بر آن درگاه خفت ** نیمشب آمد پی دیدنش جفت
- The King departed, and he (‘Imrán) slept at the door; at midnight his wife came to see him.
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زن برو افتاد و بوسید آن لبش ** بر جهانیدش ز خواب اندر شبش
- The wife fell upon him and kissed his lips: she roused him from his slumber in the night.
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گشت بیدار او و زن را دید خوش ** بوسه باران کرده از لب بر لبش 880
- He awoke and saw that his wife was fair and that she rained kisses from her lips upon his.
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گفت عمران این زمان چون آمدی ** گفت از شوق و قضای ایزدی
- ‘Imrán said, “How didst thou come at this time?” She said, “From desire (of thee) and from the Divine ordinance.”
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در کشیدش در کنار از مهر مرد ** بر نیامد با خود آن دم در نبرد
- The man drew her lovingly into his arms; at that moment he did not rise to (did not engage in) battle with himself.
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جفت شد با او امانت را سپرد ** پس بگفت ای زن نه این کاریست خرد
- Concubuit cum ea et depositum (semen) tradidit; then he said, “O wife, this is not a small matter.
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آهنی بر سنگ زد زاد آتشی ** آتشی از شاه و ملکش کینکشی
- A steel struck upon the stone, and a fire was born—a fire that shall take vengeance on the King and his empire.
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من چو ابرم تو زمین موسی نبات ** حق شه شطرنج و ما ماتیم مات 885
- I am as the cloud, thou the earth, and Moses the plant. God is (as) the king on the chessboard, and we are checkmated, checkmated.
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مات و برد از شاه میدان ای عروس ** آن مدان از ما مکن بر ما فسوس
- Deem (both) checkmate and victory (to proceed) from the King, O spouse: do not deem them to be from us, do not jeer at us.
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آنچ این فرعون میترسد ازو ** هست شد این دم که گشتم جفت تو
- That of which this Pharaoh is afraid came into being at the moment when I lay with thee.
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وصیت کردن عمران جفت خود را بعد از مجامعت کی مرا ندیده باشی
- How after having lain with her ‘Imrán charged his wife to pretend that she had not visited him.
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وا مگردان هیچ ازینها دم مزن ** تا نیاید بر من و تو صد حزن
- Do not reveal aught of these things, do not breathe a word, lest there come upon me and thee a hundred sorrows.
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عاقبت پیدا شود آثار این ** چون علامتها رسید ای نازنین
- In the end the effects of this will be made manifest, forasmuch as the signs have (already) appeared, O beloved.”
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در زمان از سوی میدان نعرهها ** میرسید از خلق و پر میشد هوا 890
- Forthwith from the direction of the maydán loud cries were (heard) coming from the people, and the air was filled (with noise).
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شاه از آن هیبت برون جست آن زمان ** پابرهنه کین چه غلغلهاست هان
- Thereupon the King, in terror, sprang forth bare-footed (from his chamber), saying, “Hark, what are these tumults?
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از سوی میدان چه بانگست و غریو ** کز نهیبش میرمد جنی و دیو
- What is the noise and uproar from the direction of the maydán, in fear whereof genie and demon are fleeing in dismay?”
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گفت عمران شاه ما را عمر باد ** قوم اسرائیلیانند از تو شاد
- ‘Imrán said, “May our King live (long)! The people of Israel are rejoicing on account of thee.
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از عطای شاه شادی میکنند ** رقص میآرند و کفها میزنند
- Because of the bounty of the King they are making merry and dancing and clapping their hands.”
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گفت باشد کین بود اما ولیک ** وهم و اندیشه مرا پر کرد نیک 895
- He (Pharaoh) said, “Maybe it is this, but it makes me very suspicious and anxious.
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ترسیدن فرعون از آن بانگ
- How Pharaoh was frightened by the noise.
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این صدا جان مرا تغییر کرد ** از غم و اندوه تلخم پیر کرد
- This sound hath marred my soul and aged me with bitter pain and grief.”
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پیش میآمد سپس میرفت شه ** جمله شب او همچو حامل وقت زه
- The King was pacing to and fro, all night he was even as a woman in the hour of childbirth.
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هر زمان میگفت ای عمران مرا ** سخت از جا برده است این نعرهها
- Every moment he would say, “O ‘Imrán, these clamours have upset me mightily.”
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زهره نه عمران مسکین را که تا ** باز گوید اختلاط جفت را
- Poor ‘Imrán had not the courage to relate his intercourse with his wife,
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که زن عمران به عمران در خزید ** تا که شد استارهی موسی پدید 900
- How the wife of ‘Imrán had stolen to his side, so that the star of Moses appeared.
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هر پیمبر که در آید در رحم ** نجم او بر چرخ گردد منتجم
- Whenever any prophet enters into the womb, his star becomes conspicuous in the sky.
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پیدا شدن استارهی موسی علیه السلام بر آسمان و غریو منجمان در میدان
- The appearance of the star of Moses, on whom be peace, in the sky and the outcry of the astrologers in the maydán.