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شحنه را غماز آگه کرده بود ** مردم شحنه بر افتادند زود
- The perfect had been apprised by an informer: the prefect’s men quickly fell upon them.
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هم بدان‌جا پای چپ و دست راست ** جمله را ببرید و غوغایی بخاست 1680
- He (the officer in charge) cut off on the spot the left feet and right hands of them all, and a great hubbub arose.
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دست زاهد هم بریده شد غلط ** پاش را می‌خواست هم کردن سقط
- The ascetic’s hand too was cut off by mistake; he (the officer) was about to make his foot also fall (to the ground),
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در زمان آمد سواری بس گزین ** بانگ بر زد بر عوان کای سگ ببین
- (When), just in time, a very elect cavalier came up and shouted at the officer, “Look out, O dog!
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این فلان شیخست از ابدال خدا ** دست او را تو چرا کردی جدا
- This is such-and-such a Shaykh, (one) of the Abdál (exalted saints) of God: why have you severed his hand?”
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آن عوان بدرید جامه تیز رفت ** پیش شحنه داد آگاهیش تفت
- The officer rent his garment and went speedily to the prefect and gave him the information at once.
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شحنه آمد پا برهنه عذرخواه ** که ندانستم خدا بر من گواه 1685
- The prefect came bare-footed, begging pardon. “I did not know,” he said; “God will bear me witness.
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هین بحل کن مر مرا زین کار زشت ** ای کریم و سرور اهل بهشت
- Pray now absolve me from this foul deed, O generous man and chief of the (destined) inhabitants of Paradise!”
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گفت می‌دانم سبب این نیش را ** می‌شناسم من گناه خویش را
- He (the Shaykh) said, “I know the cause of this (wound inflicted by the) knife: I recognise my sin.
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من شکستم حرمت ایمان او ** پس یمینم برد دادستان او
- I violated the sanctity of His oaths: therefore His judgement (sentence) took my right hand away.