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هر امیری را چنین گفت او جدا ** نیست نایب جز تو در دین خدا
- Thus he spoke to each amír separately, (saying), “There is no vicar in the religion of God except thee.”
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هر یکی را کرد او یک یک عزیز ** هر چه آن را گفت این را گفت نیز
- He honoured each, one by one, (in this way): whatever he said to that (amír) he also said to this.
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هر یکی را او یکی طومار داد ** هر یکی ضد دگر بود المراد
- To each he gave one scroll: every one was purposely the contrary of the other.
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جملگی طومارها بد مختلف ** چون حروف آن جمله از یا تا الف 660
- The text of those scrolls was diverse; all were (different), like the letters from alif to yá.
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حکم این طومار ضد حکم آن ** پیش از این کردیم این ضد را بیان
- The rule (laid down) in this scroll was contrary to the rule in that: we have already explained (the nature of) this contradiction.
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کشتن وزیر خویشتن را در خلوت
- How the vizier killed himself in seclusion.
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بعد از آن چل روز دیگر در ببست ** خویش کشت و از وجود خود برست
- After that, he shut the door for other forty days (and then) killed himself and escaped from his existence.
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چون که خلق از مرگ او آگاه شد ** بر سر گورش قیامت‌‌گاه شد
- When the people learned of his death, there came to pass at his grave the scene of the Resurrection.
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خلق چندان جمع شد بر گور او ** موکنان جامه دران در شور او
- So great a multitude gathered at his grave, tearing their hair, rending their garments in wild grief for him,
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کان عدد را هم خدا داند شمرد ** از عرب وز ترک و از رومی و کرد 665
- That only God can reckon the number of them—Arabs and Turks and Greeks and Kurds.
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خاک او کردند بر سرهای خویش ** درد او دیدند درمان جای خویش
- They put his (grave's) earth on their heads; they deemed anguish for him to be the remedy for themselves.