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انبیا بودند ایشان اهل ود ** اتحاد انبیاام فهم شد
- They were the prophets endowed with love (of God): (thus) the (spiritual) unity of the prophets was (clearly) apprehended by me.
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باز املاکی همی دیدم شگرف ** صورت ایشان بد از اجرام برف
- Again, I beheld some mighty angels: their outward form was (composed) of bodies of snow;
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حلقهی دیگر ملایک مستعین ** صورت ایشان به جمله آتشین
- And (I saw) another circle of angels asking help (of God): their outward form was wholly of fire.”
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زین نسق میگفت آن شخص جهود ** بس جهودی که آخرش محمود بود 2450
- On this wise did the Jew tell (his dream): there is many a Jew whose end was praiseworthy.
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هیچ کافر را به خواری منگرید ** که مسلمان مردنش باشد امید
- Do not regard any infidel with contempt, for there may be hope of his dying a Moslem.
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چه خبر داری ز ختم عمر او ** تا بگردانی ازو یکباره رو
- What knowledge have you of the close of his life that you should once (and for all) avert your face from him?
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بعد از ان ترسا در آمد در کلام ** که مسیحم رو نمود اندر منام
- Afterwards the Christian began to speak, saying, “The Messiah appeared to me in my dream.
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من شدم با او به چارم آسمان ** مرکز و مثوای خورشید جهان
- I went with him to the Fourth Heaven, (which is) the centre and abode of the sun of this world.
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خود عجبهای قلاع آسمان ** نسبتش نبود به آیات جهان 2455
- Verily, the marvels of the citadels of Heaven have no relation (cannot be compared) to the wonders of the (lower) world.
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هر کسی دانند ای فخر البنین ** که فزون باشد فن چرخ از زمین
- Every one knows, O pride of the sons (of Adam), that the artifice of the celestial sphere exceeds (that of) the earth.”
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حکایت اشتر و گاو و قج که در راه بند گیاه یافتند هر یکی میگفت من خورم
- Story of the camel and the ox and the ram who found a bunch of grass on the road, and each said, “I will eat it.”