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رو به خود کرد و بگفت ای نوحهگر ** نوحهات را مینیرزد آن نفر
- (Then) he turned to himself and said, “O mourner, those folk are not worth thy mourning.”
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کژ مخوان ای راست خوانندهی مبین ** کیف آسی قل لقوم ظالمین
- Do not recite incorrectly, O thou who recitest correctly the perspicuous (Qur'án) “Say, how shall I be grieved for an unjust people?”
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باز اندر چشم و دل او گریه یافت ** رحمتی بیعلتی در وی بتافت
- Again he felt a weeping in his eye and heart: an uncaused (involuntary) compassion shone forth in him.
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قطره میبارید و حیران گشته بود ** قطرهی بیعلت از دریای جود 2560
- He was raining drops of water (shedding tears)—and he had become distraught— an uncaused drop from the Ocean of Bounty.
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عقل او میگفت کین گریه ز چیست ** بر چنان افسوسیان شاید گریست
- His intellect was saying, “Wherefore is this weeping? Ought one to weep for such scoffers?
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بر چه میگریی بگو بر فعلشان ** بر سپاه کینه توز بدنشان
- Tell me, what art thou weeping for? For their fraud? For the host of (their) ill-omened exactions of vengeance?
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بر دل تاریک پر زنگارشان ** بر زبان زهر همچون مارشان
- For their murky hearts full of rust? For their venomous snake-like tongues?
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بر دم و دندان سگسارانهشان ** بر دهان و چشم کژدم خانهشان
- For their sagsár-like breath and teeth? For their mouths and eyes teeming with scorpions?
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بر ستیز و تسخر و افسوسشان ** شکر کن چون کرد حق محبوسشان 2565
- For their wrangling and sneering and scoffing? Give thanks, since God has imprisoned (restrained) them.
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دستشان کژ پایشان کژ چشم کژ ** مهرشان کژ صلحشان کژ خشم کژ
- Their hands are perverse, their feet perverse, their eyes perverse, their love perverse, their peace perverse, their anger perverse.”