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عشرهای مصحف از جا میبرید ** میبچفسانید بر رو آن پلید
- (So) that filthy (hag) was cutting out portions of the Holy Book and sticking them on her face,
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تا که سفرهی روی او پنهان شود ** تا نگین حلقهی خوبان شود
- In order that the creases of her face might be hidden, and that she might become the bezel in the ring of fair (women).
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عشرها بر روی هر جا مینهاد ** چونک بر میبست چادر میفتاد
- She was putting (these) bits of the Book all over her face, (but) they always dropped off when she put on her chádar (veil);
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باز او آن عشرها را با خدو ** میبچفسانید بر اطراف رو
- Then she would stick them on again with spittle on all sides of her face,
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باز چادر راست کردی آن تکین ** عشرها افتادی از رو بر زمین 1275
- And once more that bezel (paragon of beauty) would arrange her veil, and (again) the bits of the Book would fall from her face to the ground.
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چون بسی میکرد فن و آن میفتاد ** گفت صد لعنت بر آن ابلیس باد
- Since they always dropped off though she tried many an artifice, (at last) she exclaimed, “A hundred curses on Iblís!”
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شد مصور آن زمان ابلیس زود ** گفت ای قحبهی قدید بیورود
- Immediately Iblís took (visible) shape and said (to her), “O luckless dried-up harlot,
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من همه عمر این نیندیشیدهام ** نه ز جز تو قحبهای این دیدهام
- In all my life I have never thought of this: I have never seen this (impiety practised) by any harlot except thee.
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تخم نادر در فضیحت کاشتی ** در جهان تو مصحفی نگذاشتی
- Thou hast sown unique seed in (the field of) infamy: thou hast not left a single Scripture (Qur’án) in the world.
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صد بلیسی تو خمیس اندر خمیس ** ترک من گوی ای عجوزهی دردبیس 1280
- Thou art a hundred Devils, troop on troop: let me alone, O foul hag!”