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  • گر ندانی آن گنه را ز اعتبار  ** زود زاری کن طلب کن اغتفار 
  • If thou canst not discern that sin by means of consideration, at once make humble entreaty and seek pardon (from God).

  • سجده کن صد بار می‌گوی ای خدا  ** نیست این غم غیر درخورد و سزا  3990
  • Prostrate thyself a hundred times and keep saying, “O God, this pain is nothing but my due and desert.

  • ای تو سبحان پاک از ظلم و ستم  ** کی دهی بی‌جرم جان را درد و غم 
  • O Thou who art transcendent in holiness and free from (all) injustice and oppression, how shouldst Thou inflict grief and pain upon the soul when it has not sinned?

  • من معین می‌ندانم جرم را  ** لیک هم جرمی بباید گرم را 
  • I do not know my sin definitely, but (I know that) there must be a sin (to account) for the anguish.

  • چون بپوشیدی سبب را ز اعتبار  ** دایما آن جرم را پوشیده دار 
  • Since Thou hast concealed the cause from my consideration, do Thou always keep my sin concealed (from others);

  • که جزا اظهار جرم من بود  ** کز سیاست دزدیم ظاهر شود 
  • For it would be retribution to disclose my sin, so that my thievery (rascality) should be made manifest by punishment.”

  • عزم کردن شاه چون واقف شد بر آن خیانت کی بپوشاند و عفو کند و او را به او دهد و دانست کی آن فتنه جزای او بود و قصد او بود و ظلم او بر صاحب موصل کی و من اساء فعلیها و ان ربک لبالمرصاد و ترسیدن کی اگر انتقام کشد آن انتقام هم بر سر او آید چنانک این ظلم و طمع بر سرش آمد 
  • How the monarch, on being acquainted with that act of treachery, resolved to conceal and pardon it and give her (the slave-girl) to him (the captain), and recognised that the tribulation was a punishment inflicted on him and was (the result of) his attempt (to obtain the slave-girl) and the wrong which he had done to the lord of Mawsil; for “and whoso doeth evil, it is against himself” and “lo, thy Lord is on the watch”; and how he feared that, if he should avenge himself, the vengeance would recoil on his own head, as this injustice and greed (of his) had (already) recoiled upon him.

  • شاه با خود آمد استغفار کرد  ** یاد جرم و زلت و اصرار کرد  3995
  • The monarch came to himself. He asked pardon (of God) and confessed his sin and lapse and persistence (in wrong-doing).

  • گفت با خود آنچ کردم با کسان  ** شد جزای آن به جان من رسان 
  • He said to himself, “The retribution for what I did to certain persons has reached (overtaken) my soul.

  • قصد جفت دیگران کردم ز جاه  ** بر من آمد آن و افتادم به چاه 
  • From (pride of) power I made an attempt on the concubine of another: that (injustice) recoiled upon me and I fell into the pit (which I had dug).

  • من در خانه‌ی کسی دیگر زدم  ** او در خانه‌ی مرا زد لاجرم 
  • I knocked at the door of another person's house: consequently he knocked at the door of my house.”