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صد هزاران طفل میکشت او برون ** موسی اندر صدر خانه در درون
- He was killing hundreds of thousands of children outside, (whilst) Moses (remained) indoors in the upper part of the house.
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از جنون میکشت هر جا بد جنین ** از حیل آن کورچشم دوربین
- Wherever were embryos (new-born children), in his frenzy that far-seeing blind man was killing them by cunning devices.
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اژدها بد مکر فرعون عنود ** مکر شاهان جهان را خورده بود
- The craft of the iniquitous Pharaoh was a dragon: it had devoured the craft of the kings of the world;
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لیک ازو فرعونتر آمد پدید ** هم ورا هم مکر او را در کشید 965
- But one that was a greater Pharaoh than it came into sight and swallowed both him and his craft.
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اژدها بود و عصا شد اژدها ** این بخورد آن را به توفیق خدا
- It (Pharaoh's craft) was a dragon: the rod (of Moses) became a dragon, and this devoured that by the aid of God.
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دست شد بالای دست این تا کجا ** تا بیزدان که الیه المنتهی
- Hand is above hand: how far is this (series)? Up to God, for unto Him is the end.
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کان یکی دریاست بی غور و کران ** جمله دریاها چو سیلی پیش آن
- For that (Omnipotence) is a sea without bottom or shore: beside it all the seas together are (but) as a torrent.
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حیلهها و چارهها گر اژدهاست ** پیش الا الله آنها جمله لاست
- If (human) devices and expedients are a dragon, (yet) beside (there is no god) except Allah they all are naught.
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چون رسید اینجا بیانم سر نهاد ** محو شد والله اعلم بالرشاد 970
- Now that my exposition has reached this point, it lays down its head and expires; and God best knoweth the right course.
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آنچ در فرعون بود اندر تو هست ** لیک اژدرهات محبوس چهست
- That which was in Pharaoh, the same is in thee, but thy dragon is confined in the pit.