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تافت ز آن روزن که از دل تا دل است ** روشنی که فرق حق و باطل است
- Through the window which is between heart and heart flashed the light that separates truth and falsehood.
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گفت اینک یادم آمد ای رسول ** آن دعا که گفتهام من بو الفضول
- He said, “Look now, I have remembered, O Prophet, the prayer which I, impertinent fool, spoke.
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چون گرفتار گنه میآمدم ** غرقه دست اندر حشایش میزدم
- When I was being caught in (the toils of) sin, and drowning (therein) was clutching at straws––
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از تو تهدید و وعیدی میرسید ** مجرمان را از عذاب بس شدید 2465
- (Whilst) there was coming from thee to sinners a threat and menace of punishment exceedingly severe––
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مضطرب میگشتم و چاره نبود ** بند محکم بود و قفل ناگشود
- (And) I was becoming agitated, and there was no help (for me), (since) there were chains made fast and a lock not (to be) opened:
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نی مقام صبر و نه راه گریز ** نی امید توبه نه جای ستیز
- Neither room for patience nor means of flight, neither hope of repenting nor opportunity for rebelling
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من چو هاروت و چو ماروت از حزن ** آه میکردم که ای خلاق من
- I, like Hárút and Márút was crying in sorrow, ‘Alas!’ and saying, ‘O my Creator!’”
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از خطر هاروت و ماروت آشکار ** چاه بابل را بکردند اختیار
- Because of the dangers (of the Last Judgement) Hárút and Márút openly chose the pit of Babylon,
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تا عذاب آخرت اینجا کشند ** گربزند و عاقل و ساحروشاند 2470
- So that they might suffer here (in this world) the punishment of the world to come; and they are cunning and intelligent and magician-like.
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نیک کردند و بجای خویش بود ** سهلتر باشد ز آتش رنج دود
- They acted well, and ‘twas fitly done: the pain of smoke is lighter than (that of) fire.
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حد ندارد وصف رنج آن جهان ** سهل باشد رنج دنیا پیش آن
- The pain of that (future) world is beyond description; light is the pain of this world beside it.
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ای خنک آن کاو جهادی میکند ** بر بدن زجری و دادی میکند
- Oh, happy he that wages a holy war (of self-mortification), and puts a restraint upon the body and deals justice (against it),
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تا ز رنج آن جهانی وارهد ** بر خود این رنج عبادت مینهد
- And, in order that he may be delivered from the pain of that world, lays upon himself this pain of serving God.
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من همیگفتم که یا رب آن عذاب ** هم در این عالم بران بر من شتاب 2475
- “I was saying, ‘O Lord, quickly inflict on me in this world that punishment,
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تا در آن عالم فراغت باشدم ** در چنین درخواست حلقه میزدم
- So that I may have exemption (from it) in yonder world.’ About such-like a request was I knocking at the door .
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این چنین رنجوریی پیدام شد ** جان من از رنج بیآرام شد
- (Thereupon) such a (painful) sickness as this appeared in me: through pain my soul was deprived of rest.
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ماندهام از ذکر و از اوراد خود ** بیخبر گشتم ز خویش و نیک و بد
- I have been left without power to perform my dhikr (commemoration of God) and litanies: I have become unconscious of myself and of (all) good and ill.
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گر نمیدیدم کنون من روی تو ** ای خجسته وی مبارک بوی تو
- If I had not now beheld thy face, O thou whose scent is fortunate and blessed,
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میشدم از دست من یک بارگی ** کردیم شاهانه این غم خوارگی 2480
- I should have passed altogether from the bondage (of this life). Thou in kingly fashion hast bestowed on me this sympathy.”
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گفت هیهی این دعا دیگر مکن ** بر مکن تو خویش را از بیخ و بن
- Said the Prophet, “Hey! do not offer this prayer again: do not dig yourself up from root and base.
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تو چه طاقت داری ای مور نژند ** که نهد بر تو چنان کوه بلند
- What strength have you, O wretched ant, to endure that He should lay on you such a lofty mountain?”
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گفت توبه کردم ای سلطان که من ** از سر جلدی نه لافم هیچ فن
- He answered, “O Sultan, I repent (and vow) that in no wise will I (henceforth) brag recklessly.
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این جهان تیه است و تو موسی و ما ** از گنه در تیه مانده مبتلا
- This world is the Desert (of the Israelites), and thou art Moses, and we because of (our) sin remain in the Desert in tribulation.
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سالها ره میرویم و در اخیر ** همچنان در منزل اول اسیر 2485
- We are wayfaring for years, and at the end we are still held captive in the first stage (of the journey).
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گر دل موسی ز ما راضی بدی ** تیه را راه و کران پیدا شدی
- If the heart of Moses were pleased with us, there would be shown (to us) the way through the Desert and the (farthest) border (thereof);
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ور به کل بیزار بودی او ز ما ** کی رسیدی خوانمان هیچ از سما
- And if he were wholly disgusted with us, how by any means would trays of food come to us from heaven?
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کی ز سنگی چشمهها جوشان شدی ** در بیابانمان امان جان شدی
- How would springs gush from a rock, (and how) would there be security for our lives in the desert?
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بل به جای خوان خود آتش آمدی ** اندر این منزل لهب بر ما زدی
- Nay, truly, fire would come instead of trays: flames would beat upon us in this abode.
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چون دو دل شد موسی اندر کار ما ** گاه خصم ماست گاهی یار ما 2490
- Forasmuch as Moses has become of two minds concerning us, he is sometimes our enemy and sometimes our friend.
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خشمش آتش میزند در رخت ما ** حلم او رد میکند تیر بلا
- His anger sets fire to our goods; his clemency averts the arrow of affliction.
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کی بود که حلم گردد خشم نیز ** نیست این نادر ز لطفت ای عزیز
- When (how) may it be that anger shall again become clemency? This is not extraordinary (as proceeding) from thy grace, O venerable one.
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مدح حاضر وحشت است از بهر این ** نام موسی میبرم قاصد چنین
- To praise any one present is (a cause of) embarrassment; on this account I am purposely using the name of Moses, like this.
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ور نه موسی کی روا دارد که من ** پیش تو یاد آورم از هیچ تن
- Otherwise, how should Moses deem it right that I make mention of anybody before thee?
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عهد ما بشکست صد بار و هزار ** عهد تو چون کوه ثابت برقرار 2495
- Our covenant hath been broken hundreds and thousands of times; Thy covenant, like a mountain, stands firm and stable.
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عهد ما کاه و به هر بادی زبون ** عهد تو کوه و ز صد که هم فزون
- Our covenant is straw and subject to every wind (of passion); Thy covenant is a mountain, and even more than a hundred mountains.
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حق آن قوت که بر تلوین ما ** رحمتی کن ای امیر لونها
- By the truth of that power (which is Thine), have some mercy upon our mutability, O Ruler of (all) mutations!
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خویش را دیدیم و رسوایی خویش ** امتحان ما مکن ای شاه بیش
- We have seen ourselves (as we really are) and our shame. Put us not to further trial, O King,
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تا فضیحتهای دیگر را نهان ** کرده باشی ای کریم مستعان
- So that (by sparing us) Thou wilt have concealed other disgraces, O Bounteous One whose help we implore!
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بیحدی تو در جمال و در کمال ** در کژی ما بیحدیم و در ضلال 2500
- Thou art infinite in beauty and perfection; we are infinite in wrongness and error.
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بیحدی خویش بگمار ای کریم ** بر کژی بیحد مشتی لئیم
- Direct Thy infinity, O Bounteous One, upon the infinite wrongness of a handful of vile wretches (such as we are).
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هین که از تقطیع ما یک تار ماند ** مصر بودیم و یکی دیوار ماند
- Oh, come, for of our cloth-piece (only) a single thread remains we were a city, and (only) a single wall remains.
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البقیه البقیه ای خدیو ** تا نگردد شاد کلی جان دیو
- (Save) the remnant, (save) the remnant, O Sovereign, that the soul of the Devil may not rejoice entirely––
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بهر ما نه بهر آن لطف نخست ** که تو کردی گمرهان را باز جست
- Not for our sakes, (but) for the sake of the primal grace through which Thou didst seek out them that had lost the way.
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چون نمودی قدرتت بنمای رحم ** ای نهاده رحمها در لحم و شحم 2505
- As Thou hast shown Thy power, (so now) show Thy mercy, O Thou who hast implanted feelings of mercy in flesh and fat.
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این دعا گر خشم افزاید ترا ** تو دعا تعلیم فرما مهترا
- If this prayer increase Thy wrath, do Thou teach (us) to pray, O Lord,
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آن چنان کادم بیفتاد از بهشت ** رجعتش دادی که رست از دیو زشت
- Even as, (when) Adam fell from Paradise, Thou gavest him (leave) to turn (in penitence) toward Thee, so that he escaped from the ugly Devil.”
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دیو که بود کاو ز آدم بگذرد ** بر چنین نطعی از او بازی برد
- Who is the Devil that he should surpass Adam and win the game from him on such a board?
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در حقیقت نفع آدم شد همه ** لعنت حاسد شده آن دمدمه
- In truth, it all turned out to Adam’s advantage: that guile became a curse to the envious one.
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بازیی دید و دو صد بازی ندید ** پس ستون خانهی خود را برید 2510
- He (the Devil) saw one game, (but) he did not see two hundred games (which he should lose): therefore he cut down the supports of his own house.
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آتشی زد شب به کشت دیگران ** باد آتش را به کشت او بران
- He set fire by night to the cornfield of others; (meanwhile) O wind, drive the fire into his field!