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که انبیا رنج خسان بس دیده‌اند ** از چنین ماران بسی پیچیده‌اند 2150
- For the prophets have often suffered affliction from the vile: often have they writhed in anguish on account of such snakes.
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چون مراد و حکم یزدان غفور ** بود در قدمت تجلی و ظهور
- Since in eternity it was the will and decree of God, the Forgiver, to reveal and manifest Himself,
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بی ز ضدی ضد را نتوان نمود ** وان شه بی‌مثل را ضدی نبود
- (This involves contrariety, for) nothing can be shown without a contrary; and there was no contrary to that incomparable King.
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حکمت در انی جاعل فی الارض خلیفة
- The (Divine) purpose in (saying), “Lo, I will place a viceroy in the earth.”
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پس خلیفه ساخت صاحب‌سینه‌ای ** تا بود شاهیش را آیینه‌ای
- Therefore He made a viceroy, one having a heart, to the end that he might be a mirror for His sovereignty;
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بس صفای بی‌حدودش داد او ** وانگه از ظلمت ضدش بنهاد او
- So He endowed him with infinite purity (spiritual light), and then set up against him a contrary (in the form) of darkness.
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دو علم بر ساخت اسپید و سیاه ** آن یکی آدم دگر ابلیس راه 2155
- He made two banners, white and black: one (was) Adam, the other (was) the Iblís (Devil) of the Way (to Him).
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در میان آن دو لشکرگاه زفت ** چالش و پیکار آنچ رفت رفت
- Between those two mighty camps (there was) combat and strife, and there came to pass what came to pass.
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هم‌چنان دور دوم هابیل شد ** ضد نور پاک او قابیل شد
- Likewise in the second period Hábíl (Abel) arose, and Qábíl (Cain) became the antagonist of his pure light.
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هم‌چنان این دو علم از عدل و جور ** تا به نمرود آمد اندر دور دور
- Even so (were) these two banners of justice and iniquity (continuing to be raised) till in the course of time the period of Nimrod arrived.
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ضد ابراهیم گشت و خصم او ** وآن دو لشکر کین‌گزار و جنگ‌جو
- He became the antagonist and adversary of Abraham, and those two armies waged war (against each other) and sought battle.