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در میان شاه و او پیغامها ** شاه را پنهان بدو آرامها 455
- Messages (passed) between the king and him: the king had words of comfort from him in secret.
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پیش او بنوشت شه کای مقبلم ** وقت آمد زود فارغ کن دلم
- The king wrote to him, saying, “O my fortunate one, the time is come: quickly set my mind at ease.”
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گفت اینک اندر آن کارم شها ** کافکنم در دین عیسی فتنه‌‌ها
- He replied: “Behold, O king, I am preparing to cast disorders into the religion of Jesus.”
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بیان دوازده سبط از نصارا
- Explanation of the twelve tribes of the Christians.
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قوم عیسی را بد اندر دار و گیر ** حاکمانشان ده امیر و دو امیر
- The people of Jesus had twelve amírs as rulers in authority over them.
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هر فریقی مر امیری را تبع ** بنده گشته میر خود را از طمع
- Each party followed one amír and had become devoted to its own amír from desire (of worldly gain).
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این ده و این دو امیر و قومشان ** گشته بند آن وزیر بدنشان 460
- These twelve amírs and their followers became in bondage to (a prey to) that vizier of evil sign.
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اعتماد جمله بر گفتار او ** اقتدای جمله بر رفتار او
- They all put trust in his words, they all took his procedure as a pattern.
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پیش او در وقت و ساعت هر امیر ** جان بدادی گر بدو گفتی بمیر
- Each amír would have given up his life in his presence at the time and hour (on the spot), if he (the vizier) had bidden him die.
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تخلیط وزیر در احکام انجیل
- How the vizier confused the ordinances of the Gospel.
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ساخت طوماری به نام هر یکی ** نقش هر طومار دیگر مسلکی
- He prepared a scroll in the name of (addressed to) each one, the (written) form of each scroll (of) a different tenor,
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حکم‌‌های هر یکی نوعی دگر ** این خلاف آن ز پایان تا به سر
- The ordinances of each (of) a diverse kind, this contradicting that from the end to the beginning.