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کاروانی راه گم کرد و کشید ** سوی کوه آن ممتحن را خفته دید 2405
- A caravan lost its way and marched towards the mountain: (the travellers) saw lying (there) him who was making the trial.
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گفت این مرد این طرف چونست عور ** در بیابان از ره و از شهر دور
- (One) said (to another), ‘How is this man destitute here in the wilderness, far from road and town?
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ای عجب مرده‌ست یا زنده که او ** می‌نترسد هیچ از گرگ و عدو
- Oh, I wonder, is he dead or alive? (Evidently) he has no fear of wolves or enemies.’
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آمدند و دست بر وی می‌زدند ** قاصدا چیزی نگفت آن ارجمند
- They came on and touched him with their hands: that venerable man deliberately said nothing.
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هم نجنبید و نجنبانید سر ** وا نکرد از امتحان هم او بصر
- He did not stir, he did not even move his head or open his eyes, because he was making a trial.
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پس بگفتند این ضعیف بی‌مراد ** از مجاعت سکته اندر اوفتاد 2410
- Then they said, ‘This poor disappointed man has had a stroke of apoplexy caused by hunger.’
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نان بیاوردند و در دیگی طعام ** تا بریزندش به حلقوم و به کام
- They fetched bread and (also) food in a kettle, that they might pour it into his mouth and (down) his throat.
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پس بقاصد مرد دندان سخت کرد ** تا ببیند صدق آن میعاد مرد
- Thereupon the man purposely clenched his teeth, in order to see (test) the truth of that promise.
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رحمشان آمد که این بس بی‌نواست ** وز مجاعت هالک مرگ و فناست
- They felt pity for him and said, ‘This man is starving and perishing with hunger and at the point of death’;
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کارد آوردند قوم اشتافتند ** بسته دندانهاش را بشکافتند
- (So) they brought a knife and hastily made a rift in his closed teeth.