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نامشان را سیل تیز مرگ برد ** نام او و دولت تیزش نمرد 2800
- Their names the rapid torrent of death has borne away; his name and his puissant fortune are not dead.
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پنج نوبت می‌زنندش بر دوام ** هم‌چنین هر روز تا روز قیام
- For him the drum is always beaten five times (daily): on this wise every day till the Day of Resurrection.
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گر ترا عقلست کردم لطفها ** ور خری آورده‌ام خر را عصا
- “If thou hast intelligence, (thou wilt see that) I have done kindnesses; and if thou art an ass, I have brought the rod for the ass.
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آنچنان زین آخرت بیرون کنم ** کز عصا گوش و سرت پر خون کنم
- I will turn thee out of this stable in such wise that I will make thy ears and head bloody with (blows of) the rod.
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اندرین آخر خران و مردمان ** می‌نیابند از جفای تو امان
- In this stable asses and men are getting no quarter from thy oppression.
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نک عصا آورده‌ام بهر ادب ** هر خری را کو نباشد مستحب 2805
- Lo, I have brought the rod, for correction's sake, for every ass that is not approved.
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اژدهایی می‌شود در قهر تو ** که اژدهایی گشته‌ای در فعل و خو
- It will become a dragon in subduing thee, for thou hast become a dragon in (thy) deeds and disposition.
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اژدهای کوهیی تو بی‌امان ** لیک بنگر اژدهای آسمان
- Thou art a mountain-dragon without mercy; but look at the dragon of Heaven!
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این عصا از دوزخ آمد چاشنی ** که هلا بگریز اندر روشنی
- This rod comes as a taste (sample) from Hell, saying, ‘Ho! take refuge in the Light;
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ورنه در مانی تو در دندان من ** مخلصت نبود ز در بندان من
- Else thou wilt be left helpless in my teeth: there will be no escape for thee through my passes.’
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این عصایی بود این دم اژدهاست ** تا نگویی دوزخ یزدان کجاست 2810
- This was a rod; it is now a dragon, to the end that thou mayst not say, ‘Where is God's Hell?’”
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در بیان آنک شناسای قدرت حق نپرسد کی بهشت و دوزخ کجاست
- Explaining that one who knows the power of God will not ask, "Where are Paradise and Hell?"
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هر کجا خدا دوزخ کند ** اوج را بر مرغ دام و فخ کند
- God makes Hell to be wheresoever He will: He makes the zenith to be a snare and trap for the bird.
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هم ز دندانت برآید دردها ** تا بگویی دوزخست و اژدها
- Likewise from thy teeth arise pangs of pain, to the end that thou mayst say, “‘Tis Hell and the dragon.”
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یا کند آب دهانت را عسل ** که بگویی که بهشتست و حلل
- Or He makes the water of thy mouth to be (sweet as) honey, that thou mayst say, “’Tis Paradise and the robes (of Paradise).”
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از بن دندان برویاند شکر ** تا بدانی قوت حکم قدر
- He makes sugar to grow from the roots of the teeth, that thou mayst know the power of the ordinance of the (Divine) decree.
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پس به دندان بی‌گناهان را مگز ** فکر کن از ضربت نامحترز 2815
- Do not, then, bite the innocent with thy teeth: bethink thee of the stroke that is not to be guarded against.
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نیل را بر قبطیان حق خون کند ** سبطیان را از بلا محصون کند
- God makes the Nile to be blood for the Egyptians; He makes the Israelites safe from calamity,
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تا بدانی پیش حق تمییز هست ** در میان هوشیار راه و مست
- That thou mayst know that with God there is discrimination between the sober (traveller) on the Way and the intoxicated.
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نیل تمییز از خدا آموختست ** که گشاد آن را و این را سخت بست
- The Nile has learned from God to discriminate, for it opened (the door) for these (Israelites) and shut fast (the door) against those (Egyptians).
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لطف او عاقل کند مر نیل را ** قهر او ابله کند قابیل را
- His grace makes the Nile intelligent; His wrath makes Cain foolish.
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در جمادات از کرم عقل آفرید ** عقل از عاقل به قهر خود برید 2820
- He, from kindness, created intelligence in lifeless things; He, because of His wrath, cut off intelligence from the intelligent one.
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در جماد از لطف عقلی شد پدید ** وز نکال از عاقلان دانش رمید
- By (His) grace an intelligence appeared in lifeless matter, and through (His) chastisement knowledge fled from the intelligent.
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عقل چون باران به امر آنجا بریخت ** عقل این سو خشم حق دید و گریخت
- There, by (His) command the rain-like intelligence poured down; here, intelligence saw God's anger and took to flight.
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ابر و خورشید و مه و نجم بلند ** جمله بر ترتیب آیند و روند
- Clouds and sun and moon and lofty stars, all come and go according to arrangement.
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هر یکی ناید مگر در وقت خویش ** که نه پس ماند ز هنگام و نه پیش
- None comes but at its appointed hour, so that it neither lags behind the time nor (arrives) before.