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بیخبر کآزار این آزار اوست ** آب این خم متصل با آب جوست 2520
- Not knowing that to hurt this (body) is to hurt (offend) Him: the water in this jar is joined with the water in the river.
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ز آن تعلق کرد با جسمی اله ** تا که گردد جمله عالم را پناه
- God connected (the spirit) with a body, in order that he (the prophet or saint) might become a refuge for the whole world.
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ناقهی جسم ولی را بنده باش ** تا شوی با روح صالح خواجهتاش
- Be a slave to the camel, which is the saint's body, that you may become the fellow servant of the Sálih-spirit.
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گفت صالح چون که کردید این حسد ** بعد سه روز از خدا نقمت رسد
- Sálih said (to the people of Thamúd), “Inasmuch as ye have shown this envy, after three days the punishment will arrive from God.
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بعد سه روز دگر از جان ستان ** آفتی آید که دارد سه نشان
- After three more days there will come from the Taker of life a calamity that hath three signs.
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رنگ روی جمله تان گردد دگر ** رنگ رنگ مختلف اندر نظر 2525
- The colour of all your faces will be changed, (they will be of) colours different to look at.
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روز اول رویتان چون زعفران ** در دوم رو سرخ همچون ارغوان
- On the first day your faces will be like saffron, on the second your faces will be red like arghawán (flowers of the Judas-tree).
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در سوم گردد همه روها سیاه ** بعد از آن اندر رسد قهر اله
- On the third, all your faces will become black: after that, the vengeance of God will arrive.
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گر نشان خواهید از من زین وعید ** کرهی ناقه به سوی که دوید
- If ye desire from me the sign of this threatened chastisement, the she-camel's foal has run towards the mountains:
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گر توانیدش گرفتن چاره هست ** ور نه خود مرغ امید از دام جست
- If ye can catch him, there is help (for you); else the bird of hope hath surely escaped from the snare.”