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وعده‌ی فردا و پس‌فردای تو ** انتظار حشرت آمد وای تو
- Your promise, “To-morrow” and “the day after to-morrow,” has become your waiting on the Day of Congregation: alas for you!
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منتظر مانی در آن روز دراز ** در حساب و آفتاب جان‌گداز
- You will remain waiting on that long Day, (engaged) in rendering an account (of your actions) and (standing) in the soul-consuming sun,
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کسمان را منتظر می‌داشتی ** تخم فردا ره روم می‌کاشتی
- Because you were wont to keep Heaven waiting and sow the seed of “I will go on the Way to-morrow.”
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خشم تو تخم سعیر دوزخست ** هین بکش این دوزخت را کین فخست 3480
- Your anger is the seed of Hell-fire: take heed, extinguish this Hell of yours, for this is a trap.
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کشتن این نار نبود جز به نور ** نورک اطفا نارنا نحن الشکور
- The extinction of this fire is not (to be effected) save by the Light: “thy light hath put out our fire, we are the grateful.”
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گر تو بی نوری کنی حلمی بدست ** آتشت زنده‌ست و در خاکسترست
- If you are devoid of the Light and do an act of clemency, ’tis evil: your fire (of anger) is (still) alive and is (still lurking) in the embers.
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آن تکلف باشد و روپوش هین ** نار را نکشد به غیر نور دین
- Beware! That (clemency) is (mere) ostentation and masking (the truth): nothing will extinguish the fire (of anger) except the Light of Religion.
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تا نبینی نور دین آمن مباش ** کاتش پنهان شود یک روز فاش
- Do not be secure till you behold the Light of Religion, for the hidden fire will one day become manifest.
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نور آبی دان و هم در آب چفس ** چونک داری آب از آتش مترس 3485
- Deem the Light to be a water, and cleave to the water withal: when you have the water, be not afraid of the fire.
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آب آتش را کشد کتش بخو ** می‌بسوزد نسل و فرزندان او
- The water will extinguish the fire, because the fire by its nature burns up its (the water's) progeny and children.