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بهر مظلومان همی‌کندند چاه ** در چه افتادند و می‌گفتند آه
- They were digging a pit for the oppressed” they (themselves) fell into the pit, crying “Alas!”
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پوستین یوسفان بکشافتند ** آنچ می‌کردند یک یک یافتند
- They tore the coats of the Josephs (the prophets and saints), and that which they gave they got, piece by piece.
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کیست آن یوسف دل حق‌جوی تو ** چون اسیری بسته اندر کوی تو
- Who is that Joseph? Thy God-seeking heart, bound as a captive in thy abode.
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جبرئیلی را بر استن بسته‌ای ** پر و بالش را به صد جا خسته‌ای
- Thou hast bound a Gabriel on a pillar, thou hast wounded his wings and plumes in a hundred places.
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پیش او گوساله بریان آوری ** گه کشی او را به کهدان آوری 400
- Thou settest before him a roasted calf, thou fetchest (ground) straw and bringest him to the straw-barn,
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که بخور اینست ما را لوت و پوت ** نیست او را جز لقاء الله قوت
- Saying, “Eat; this is a dainty meal for us,” (although) for him there is no food but meeting God face to face.
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زین شکنجه و امتحان آن مبتلا ** می‌کند از تو شکایت با خدا
- On account of this torment and tribulation that afflicted (heart) is complaining of thee to God,
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کای خدا افغان ازین گرگ کهن ** گویدش نک وقت آمد صبر کن
- Crying, “O God, deliver (me) from this old wolf!” He (God) saith to it, “Lo, the hour is (wellnigh) come: have patience.
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داد تو وا خواهم از هر بی‌خبر ** داد کی دهد جز خدای دادگر
- I will demand justice for thee from every heedless one: who gives justice but God, the Dealer of justice?”
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او همی‌گوید که صبرم شد فنا ** در فراق روی تو یا ربنا 405
- It (the heart) says, “ My patience is lost in separation from Thy face, O Lord.