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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.
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بر فلک پیدا شد آن استارهاش ** کوری فرعون و مکر و چارهاش
- His star appeared in the sky, to the confusion of Pharaoh and his plots and devices.
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روز شد گفتش که ای عمران برو ** واقف آن غلغل و آن بانگ شو
- Day broke: he (Pharaoh) said to him (‘Imrán), “O ‘Imrán, go, inform thyself concerning that uproar and noise.”
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راند عمران جانب میدان و گفت ** این چه غلغل بود شاهنشه نخفت
- ‘Imrán rode to the maydán and said, “What uproar was this? The King of kings has not slept.”
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هر منجم سر برهنه جامهپاک ** همچو اصحاب عزا بوسیده خاک 905
- Every astrologer, with head bare and garment rent, kissed the earth (before him), like mourners.
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همچو اصحاب عزا آوازشان ** بد گرفته از فغان و سازشان
- Their voices were choked with lamentation, like mourners, and their guise (dishevelled).
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ریش و مو بر کنده رو بدریدگان ** خاک بر سر کرده خونپر دیدگان
- They had plucked out their beards and hair; their faces were torn; they had cast earth on their heads, and their eyes were filled with blood.
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گفت خیرست این چه آشوبست و حال ** بد نشانی میدهد منحوس سال
- He (‘Imrán) said, “Is it well (with you)? What is this perturbation and emotion? Does the unlucky year give an evil sign?”
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عذر آوردند و گفتند ای امیر ** کرد ما را دست تقدیرش اسیر
- They offered excuses and said, “O Amír, the hand of His predestination hath made us captive.