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سنگهای امتحان را نیز پیش ** امتحانها هست در احوال خویش
- And for the touchstones too there are tests concerning their own (inward) states.
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گفت یزدان از ولادت تا بحین ** یفتنون کل عام مرتین 745
- God hath said, “From birth unto death they are tried every year twice.”
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امتحان در امتحانست ای پدر ** هین به کمتر امتحان خود را مخر
- There is test upon test, O father: beware, do not (be ready to) buy yourself at the smallest test.
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آمن بودن بلعم باعور کی امتحانها کرد حضرت او را و از آنها روی سپید آمده بود
- How Bal‘am the son of Bá‘úr was (felt himself) secure, because the Lord had made (many) tests (of him) and he had come through them honourably.
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بلعم باعور و ابلیس لعین ** ز امتحان آخرین گشته مهین
- Bal‘am the son of Bá‘úr and the accursed Iblís were disgraced at the ultimate test.
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او بدعوی میل دولت می‌کند ** معده‌اش نفرین سبلت می‌کند
- He (the boastful hypocrite), by his pretension, desires to be (reputed) rich, (but) his belly is execrating his moustache,
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کانچ پنهان می‌کند پیدایش کن ** سوخت ما را ای خدا رسواش کن
- Crying, “Display that which he is hiding! He has consumed me (with anguish): O God, expose him!”
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جمله اجزای تنش خصم ویند ** کز بهاری لافد ایشان در دیند 750
- All the members of his body are his adversaries, for he prates of spring (while) they are in December.
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لاف وا داد کرمها می‌کند ** شاخ رحمت را ز بن بر می‌کند
- Vain talk repels acts of kindness and tears off the bough of pity from the trunk of the tree.
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راستی پیش آر یا خاموش کن ** وانگهان رحمت ببین و نوش کن
- Bring forward (practise) honesty, or else be silent, and then behold pity and enjoy it.
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آن شکم خصم سبال او شده ** دست پنهان در دعا اندر زده
- That belly became the adversary of his moustache and secretly had recourse to prayer,