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تا بمالد در پر و منقال خویش ** گر دهد دستوریش آن خوب کیش
- That he might rub them on his wings and beak, if that person of goodly practice give him permission.
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باز گوید خشم کمپیر ار فروخت ** فر و نور و علم و صبرم را نسوخت
- The falcon says, “If the anger of the old crone has blazed forth, (yet) it has not consumed my glory and splendour and self-denial and knowledge.
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باز جانم باز صد صورت تند ** زخم بر ناقه نه بر صالح زند
- The falcon, (which is) my spirit, will still weave a hundred forms: the blow falls on the she-camel, not on Sálih.
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صالح از یکدم که آرد با شکوه ** صد چنان ناقه بزاید متن کوه
- At a single awful breath that Sálih heaves, the back (womb) of the mountain will bring to birth a hundred such she-camels.”
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دل همی گوید خموش و هوش دار ** ورنه درانید غیرت پود و تار 2650
- (My) heart is saying, “Be silent and observe discretion; otherwise, the (Divine) jealousy will end the warp and woof (of thy existence).”
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غیرتش را هست صد حلم نهان ** ورنه سوزیدی به یک دم صد جهان
- His jealousy hath a hundred hidden clemencies; else in one moment it would consume a hundred worlds.
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نخوت شاهی گرفتش جای پند ** تا دل خود را ز بند پند کند
- Kingly pride seized the place of (left no room for) admonition in him (Pharaoh), so that he wrenched his heart away from the bonds of admonition,
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که کنم بار رای هامان مشورت ** کوست پشت ملک و قطب مقدرت
- Saying, “I will take counsel with Hámán, for he is the support of the kingdom and the pivot of power.”
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مصطفی را رایزن صدیق رب ** رایزن بوجهل را شد بولهب
- The Lord's veracious witness was the counsellor of Mustafá (Mohammed); Bú Lahab became the counsellor of Bú Jahl.
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عرق جنسیت چنانش جذب کرد ** کان نصیحتها به پیشش گشت سرد 2655
- The homogeneity rooted in his nature drew him (towards Hámán) so (strongly) that those admonishments (of Ásiya) became irksome to him.