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او به سوی آسمان میکرد رو ** واقعهی ما را نداند غیر تو
- He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.
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در دل من آن دعا انداختی ** صد امید اندر دلم افراختی
- Thou didst put that prayer into my heart, Thou didst raise dreams.”
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من نمیکردم گزافه آن دعا ** همچو یوسف دیده بودم خوابها
- Not idly was I uttering that prayer: like Joseph, I had dreamed dreams.”
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دید یوسف آفتاب و اختران ** پیش او سجدهکنان چون چاکران
- Joseph saw (in dream) the sun and the stars bowing low before him, like servants.
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اعتمادش بود بر خواب درست ** در چه و زندان جز آن را مینجست 2335
- He relied upon the true dream: in the dungeoun and prison he sought nothing but that.
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ز اعتماد او نبودش هیچ غم ** از غلامی وز ملام و بیش و کم
- Because of his reliance upon that, he cared naught for servitude or reproach or (anything else whether) more or less.
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اعتمادی داشت او بر خواب خویش ** که چو شمعی میفروزیدش ز پیش
- He had a (great) reliance upon his dream which was shining in front of him like a candle.
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چون در افکندند یوسف را به چاه ** بانگ آمد سمع او را از اله
- When they cast Joseph into the well, there came to his ear a cry from God-
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که تو روزی شه شوی ای پهلوان ** تا بمالی این جفا در رویشان
- “O paladin, one day thou wilt become king, so that thou mayst rub this wrong upon their faces.”
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قایل این بانگ ناید در نظر ** لیک دل بشناخت قایل را ز اثر 2340
- He who utters this cry is not visible, but the heart (of Joseph) recognized the Speaker from the effect (of the words.)