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هر که را آن حکم بر سر آمدی ** بر سر فرزند هم تیغی زدی
- Any one on whom that decree might come (fall) would strike a sword-blow even at the head of his (own) child.
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رو بترس و طعنه کم زن بر بدان ** پیش دام حکم عجز خود بدان
- Go, fear (God) and do not rail at the wicked: know thine own impotence before the snare of the (Divine) decree.
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تعجب کردن آدم علیه السلام از ضلالت ابلیس لعین و عجب آوردن
- How Adam, on whom be peace, marvelled at the perdition of the accursed Iblís and showed vanity.
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چشم آدم بر بلیسی کو شقی ست ** از حقارت و از زیافت بنگریست
- The eye of Adam looked with contempt and scorn on Iblís who is damned.
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خویش بینی کرد و آمد خود گزین ** خنده زد بر کار ابلیس لعین
- He behaved with self-conceit and became self-approving: he laughed at the plight of accursed Iblís.
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بانگ بر زد غیرت حق کای صفی ** تو نمیدانی ز اسرار خفی 3895
- The jealousy of God cried out (against him)—“O chosen one, thou art ignorant of the hidden mysteries (of His providence).
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پوستین را باژگونه گر کند ** کوه را از بیخ و از بن بر کند
- If He should turn the fur inside out, He would tear up from root and bottom (even) the (firmest) mountain (of faith);
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پردهی صد آدم آن دم بر درد ** صد بلیس نو مسلمان آورد
- At that instant He would rend the veil of (put to shame) a hundred Adams and bring (to light) a hundred Devils newly converted to Islam.”
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گفت آدم توبه کردم زین نظر ** این چنین گستاخ نندیشم دگر
- Adam said, “I repent of this look; I will not think so disrespectfully again.”
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یا غیاث المستغیثین اهدنا ** لا افتخار بالعلوم و الغنی
- O Help of them that call for help, lead us (aright)! There is no (cause for) pride in knowledge or riches.
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لا تزغ قلبا هدیت بالکرم ** و اصرف السوء الذی خط القلم 3900
- Do not let a heart stray that Thou hast guided by Thy grace, and avert the evil which the Pen has written.