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سرسیه چون نامههای تعزیه ** پر معاصی متن نامه و حاشیه
- Headed with black, as letters of mourning; the body and margin of the scroll completely filled with (his) sins—
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جمله فسق و معصیت بد یک سری ** همچو دارالحرب پر از کافری
- The whole (of it) wickedness and sin from end to end, full of infidelity, like the land of war.
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آنچنان نامهی پلید پر وبال ** در یمین ناید درآید در شمال
- Such a foul and noxious scroll does not come into the right hand; it comes into the left hand.
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خود همینجا نامهی خود را ببین ** دست چپ را شاید آن یا در یمین 2155
- Here also (in this world) regard your scroll (the record of your actions), (and consider) whether it fits the left hand or the right.
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موزهی چپ کفش چپ هم در دکان ** آن چپ دانیش پیش از امتحان
- In the (bootmaker's) shop, can you know before trying (them) on that the left boot or shoe belongs to the left (foot)?
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چون نباشی راست میدان که چپی ** هست پیدا نعرهی شیر و کپی
- When you are not “right,” know that you are “left”; the cries of a lion and an ape are distinct (from one another).
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آنک گل را شاهد و خوشبو کند ** هر چپی را راست فضل او کند
- He (God) who makes the rose lovely and sweet-scented—His bounty makes every “left” to be “right.”
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هر شمالی را یمینی او دهد ** بحر را ماء معینی او دهد
- He bestows “rightness” on every one belonging to the “left” He bestows a(fresh) running water on the (salt) sea.
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گر چپی با حضرت او راست باش ** تا ببینی دستبرد لطفهاش 2160
- If you are “left,” be “right” (in perfect harmony) with His Lordship, that you may see His mercies prevail (over His wrath).
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تو روا داری که این نامهی مهین ** بگذرد از چپ در آید در یمین
- Do you think it allowable that this vile scroll (of yours) should pass from the left hand and come into the right?