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هیچ آدم گفت حق را که ترا ** امتحان کردم درین جرم و خطا
- Did Adam ever say to God, “I made trial of Thee in (committing) this sin and trespass,
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تا ببینم غایت حلمت شها ** اه کرا باشد مجال این کرا
- That I might see the utmost limit of Thy clemency, O King?” Ah, who would be capable of (seeing) this, who?
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عقل تو از بس که آمد خیره‌سر ** هست عذرت از گناه تو بتر 365
- Forasmuch as your understanding is confused, your excuse is worse than your crime.
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آنک او افراشت سقف آسمان ** تو چه دانی کردن او را امتحان
- How can you make trial of Him who raised aloft the vault of heaven?
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ای ندانسته تو شر و خیر را ** امتحان خود را کن آنگه غیر را
- O you that have not known good and evil, (first) make trial of yourself, and then of others.
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امتحان خود چو کردی ای فلان ** فارغ آیی ز امتحان دیگران
- When you have made trial of yourself, O such-and-such, you will be unconcerned with making trial of others.
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چون بدانستی که شکردانه‌ای ** پس بدانی کاهل شکرخانه‌ای
- When you have come to know that you are a grain of sugar, then you will know that you belong to the sugar-house.
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پس بدان بی‌امتحانی که اله ** شکری نفرستدت ناجایگاه 370
- Know, then, without making any trial, that (if) you are sugar, God will not send you to the wrong place.
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این بدان بی‌امتحان از علم شاه ** چون سری نفرستدت در پایگاه
- Without making trial, know this of the King's (God's) knowledge: when you are a (spiritual) chief, He will not send you (down) to the vestibule.
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هیچ عاقل افکند در ثمین ** در میان مستراحی پر چمین
- Does any intelligent man let a precious pearl fall into the midst of a privy full of ordure?