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مروحهی تقدیر ربانی چرا ** پر نباشد ز امتحان و ابتلا
- Why (then) should not the fan of Divine fore-ordainment be fraught with trial and probation (by means of good and evil)?
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چونک جزو باد دم یا مروحه ** نیست الا مفسده یا مصلحه
- Inasmuch as the part, namely, the wind of the breath or the fan, is naught but a cause of injury or advantage,
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این شمال و این صبا و این دبور ** کی بود از لطف و از انعام دور 140
- How should this north-wind and this east-wind and this west- wind be remote from (showing) favour and conferring bounty?
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یک کف گندم ز انباری ببین ** فهم کن کان جمله باشد همچنین
- Look at a handful of wheat froth a granary, and apprehend that the whole of it will be just like this (handful).
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کل باد از برج باد آسمان ** کی جهد بی مروحهی آن بادران
- How should the whole of the wind rush forth from the mansion of the wind in Heaven without (being impelled by) the fan of that Driver of the wind?
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بر سر خرمن به وقت انتقاد ** نه که فلاحان ز حق جویند باد
- Is it not the fact that at winnowing-time the labourers on the threshing-floor beseech God for wind,
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تا جدا گردد ز گندم کاهها ** تا به انباری رود یا چاهها
- In order that the straws may be separated from the wheat, so that it may go into a granary or pits?
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چون بماند دیر آن باد وزان ** جمله را بینی به حق لابهکنان 145
- When the blowing wind is long delayed, you may see them all making humble entreaty to God.
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همچنین در طلق آن باد ولاد ** گر نیاید بانگ درد آید که داد
- Likewise, in parturition, if the wind of childbirth do not come, there comes (from the mother) a woeful cry for help.
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گر نمیدانند کش راننده اوست ** باد را پس کردن زاری چه خوست
- If they (that desire the wind) are not aware that He is its Driver, then what disposes (them) to pray piteously for the wind?