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نقض توبه و عهد آن اصحاب سبت ** موجب مسخ آمد و اهلاک و مقت
- The violation of vows of repentance by the “Fellows of the Sabbath” became the cause of their metamorphosis and destruction and abomination.
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پس خدا آن قوم را بوزینه کرد ** چونک عهد حق شکستند از نبرد
- Therefore God turned those people into apes, since they rebelliously broke their covenant with God.
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اندرین امت نبد مسخ بدن ** لیک مسخ دل بود ای بوالفطن
- In this community there has never been metamorphosis of the body, but there is metamorphosis of the spirit, O man endowed with perception.
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چون دل بوزینه گردد آن دلش ** از دل بوزینه شد خوار آن گلش 2595
- When his spirit becomes the ape-spirit, his clay (body) is debased by the ape-spirit.
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گر هنر بودی دلش را ز اختبار ** خوار کی بودی ز صورت آن حمار
- How should the ass be debased by his (bodily) form, if his spirit had possessed the virtue (that is derived) from (rational) experience?
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آن سگ اصحاب خوش بد سیرتش ** هیچ بودش منقصت زان صورتش
- The dog of the Companions (of the Cave) had a goodly character: was he any the worse on account of his (bodily) form?
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مسخ ظاهر بود اهل سبت را ** تا ببیند خلق ظاهر کبت را
- The “Fellows of the Sabbath” suffered outward metamorphosis, in order that the people might behold outwardly their ignominious fall.
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از ره سر صد هزاران دگر ** گشته از توبه شکستن خوک و خر
- Through breaking (vows of) repentance a hundred thousand others have become hogs and asses inwardly.
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دوم بار آمدن روبه بر این خر گریخته تا باز بفریبدش
- How the fox approached the runaway ass a second time in order to beguile him once more.
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پس بیامد زود روبه سوی خر ** گفت خر از چون تو یاری الحذر 2600
- Then the fox came quickly towards the ass: the ass said, “One must beware of a friend like you.
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ناجوامردا چه کردم من ترا ** که به پیش اژدها بردی مرا
- Ignoble creature, what did I do to you that you brought me into the presence of a dragon?