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بنگرید ای مردگان بی حنوط ** در سیاستگاه شهرستان لوط
- Look, O ye unembalmed dead, upon the place where the city of Lot suffered punishment!
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پیل خود چه بود که سه مرغ پران ** کوفتند آن پیلکان را استخوان
- What is the elephant even? for three flying birds crushed the bones of those wretched elephants.
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اضعف مرغان ابابیلست و او ** پیل را بدرید و نپذیرد رفو
- The abábíl is the weakest of birds, and (yet) it rent the elephant irreparably.
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کیست کو نشنید آن طوفان نوح ** یا مصاف لشکر فرعون و روح 2820
- Who is there that has not heard of the Flood of Noah, or of the battle of Pharaoh's host with the Spirit?
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روحشان بشکست و اندر آب ریخت ** ذره ذره آبشان بر میگسیخت
- The Spirit routed them and cast them pell-mell into the water: the water was shattering them to atoms.
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کیست کو نشنید احوال ثمود ** و آنک صرصر عادیان را میربود
- Who is there that has not heard what happened to Thamúd and how the sarsar wind swept the ‘Ádites away?
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چشم باری در چنان پیلان گشا ** که بدندی پیلکش اندر وغا
- Open thine eyes for once (and look) upon such elephants (mighty prophets), who were killers of elephants (tyrants) in war.
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آنچنان پیلان و شاهان ظلوم ** زیر خشم دل همیشه در رجوم
- Such elephants and unjust kings as those are always in excommunication under the wrath of the (prophet's) heart.
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تا ابد از ظلمتی در ظلمتی ** میروند و نیست غوثی رحمتی 2825
- Unto everlasting they go from a darkness to a darkness, and there is no succour, no mercy.
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نام نیک و بد مگر نشنیدهاید ** جمله دیدند و شما نادیدهاید
- Perchance ye have not heard the name of good and evil. All have seen, and ye are seeing not.