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جملهی راه استخوان و موی و پی ** بس که تیغ قهر لاشی کرد شی
- The whole way is (covered with) bones and hair and sinews: many is the thing that the sword of Vengeance hath made nothing.
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گفت حق که بندگان جفت عون ** بر زمین آهسته میرانند و هون
- God hath said that (His) servants (who are) attended by (His) help walk on the earth quietly and meekly.
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پا برهنه چون رود در خارزار ** جز بوقفه و فکرت و پرهیزگار 835
- How should a bare-footed man go into the thorn-thicket save with halting and reflection and cautiously?
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این قضا میگفت لیکن گوششان ** بسته بود اندر حجاب جوششان
- The Decree was saying this (to them), but their ears were closed in the (muffling) veil of their hotheadedness.
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چشمها و گوشها را بستهاند ** جز مر آنها را که از خود رستهاند
- (All) eyes and ears have been closed, except for them that have escaped from themselves.
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جز عنایت که گشاید چشم را ** جز محبت که نشاند خشم را
- Who but Grace shall open the eyes? Who but Love shall allay the (Divine) Wrath?
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جهد بی توفیق خود کس را مباد ** در جهان والله اعلم بالسداد
- Truly, may no one in the world have toil without (God's) prospering (it)! And God best knoweth the right course.
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قصهی خواب دیدن فرعون آمدن موسی را علیه السلام و تدارک اندیشیدن
- The Story of Pharaoh's dream of the coming of Moses, on whom be peace, and how he took thought to relieve himself (of the threatened danger).
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جهد فرعونی چو بی توفیق بود ** هرچه او میدوخت آن تفتیق بود 840
- Inasmuch as Pharaoh's toil was unblest (by God), whatsoever he would stitch, that (stitching) was (in effect an act of) ripping asunder.
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از منجم بود در حکمش هزار ** وز معبر نیز و ساحر بیشمار
- He had a thousand astrologers at his beck, and also a countless multitude of dream-interpreters and magicians.
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مقدم موسی نمودندش بخواب ** که کند فرعون و ملکش را خراب
- There was shown to him in a dream the coming of Moses, who would destroy Pharaoh and his kingdom.