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  • دست بر بالای دستست ای فتی ** در فن و در زور تا ذات خدا
  • Hand is above hand, O youth, in skill and in strength up to the Essence of God.

  • منتهای دستها دست خداست ** بحر بی‌شک منتهای سیلهاست
  • The ultimate end of (all) hands is the Hand of God: the ultimate end of (all) torrents is undoubtedly the sea.

  • هم ازو گیرند مایه ابرها ** هم بدو باشد نهایت سیل را
  • From it the clouds take their origin, and in it too the torrent hath an end.

  • گفت شاهش کین پسر از دست رفت ** گفت اینک آمدم درمان زفت 3165
  • The king said to him, “This boy has passed out of control (has lost his wits).” He (the magician) said, “Look you, I am come as a potent remedy.

  • نیست همتا زال را زین ساحران ** جز من داهی رسیده زان کران
  • None of these sorcerers is equal to the old woman except me, the sagacious one, who have arrived from yonder shore.

  • چون کف موسی به امر کردگار ** نک برآرم من ز سحر او دمار
  • Lo, by command of the Creator, I, like the hand of Moses, will utterly destroy her sorcery;

  • که مرا این علم آمد زان طرف ** نه ز شاگردی سحر مستخف
  • For to me this knowledge hath come from yonder region, not from having been schooled in the sorcery which is held cheap (by the wise).

  • آمدم تا بر گشایم سحر او ** تا نماند شاه‌زاده زردرو
  • I am come to undo her sorcery, so that the prince may not remain pale-faced.

  • سوی گورستان برو وقت سحور ** پهلوی دیوار هست اسپید گور 3170
  • Go to the graveyard at the hour of the meal taken before dawn: beside the wall is a whitened tomb.

  • سوی قبله باز کاو آنجای را ** تا ببینی قدرت و صنع خدا
  • Dig up that place in the direction of the qibla, that thou mayst behold the power and the working of God.”