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روز میلادش رصد بندیم ما ** تا نگردد فوت و نجهد این قضا
- We shall observe (by the stars) the day of his nativity, that this event may not escape and evade us.
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گر نداریم این نگه ما را بکش ** ای غلام رای تو افکار و هش
- If we do not keep watch for this, kill us, O thou to whose judgement (our) thoughts and intelligence are slaves.”
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تا بنه مه می‌شمرد او روز روز ** تا نپرد تیر حکم خصم‌دوز
- For nine months he was counting day after day, lest the arrow of the Decree that transfixes its enemy should fly (from the bow).
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بر قضا هر کو شبیخون آورد ** سرنگون آید ز خون خود خورد 935
- When (the world of) space makes an assault upon (the world of) non-spatiality, it falls headlong and drinks its own blood.
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چون زمین با آسمان خصمی کند ** شوره گردد سر ز مرگی بر زند
- When the earth shows enmity to the sky, it becomes salty (barren) and presents a spectacle of death.
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نقش با نقاش پنجه می‌زند ** سبلتان و ریش خود بر می‌کند
- (When) the picture (creature) struggles hand to hand with the Painter (Creator), it (only) tears out its own moustaches and beard.
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خواندن فرعون زنان نوزاده را سوی میدان هم جهت مکر
- How Pharaoh summoned the women who had new-born children to the maydán, (doing this) also for the sake of his plot (against Moses).
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بعد نه مه شه برون آورد تخت ** سوی میدان و منادی کرد سخت
- After nine months the King brought out his throne to the maydán and made a strict proclamation.
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کای زنان با طفلکان میدان روید ** جمله اسرائیلیان بیرون شوید
- “O women, go with your babes to the maydán; go forth, all ye of Israel.
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آنچنانک پار مردان را رسید ** خلعت و هر کس ازیشان زر کشید 940
- Just as last year robes of honour were bestowed on the men, and every one of them bore away gold,
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هین زنان امسال اقبال شماست ** تا بیابد هر یکی چیزی که خواست
- Hark, O women, this year it is your fortune, so that each one (of you) may obtain the thing she desires.