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دیگری را گفت رو ای بوالعلا ** باز پرس از کاروان که تا کجا
- (Then) he said to another (Amír), “Go, noble lord, and ask whither the caravan is bound.”
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رفت و آمد گفت تا سوی یمن ** گفت رختش چیست هان ای موتمن
- He went and returned and said, “For Yemen.” “Ha,” said the King, “what is their merchandise, O trusty one?”
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ماند حیران گفت با میری دگر ** که برو وا پرس رخت آن نفر
- He (the Amír) remained (silent) in perplexity. (Then) the King said to another Amír, “Go and inquire (what is) the merchandise of those people.”
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باز آمد گفت از هر جنس هست ** اغلب آن کاسه‌های رازیست
- He came back and said, “It is of every sort; the greater part consists of cups made in Rayy.”
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گفت کی بیرون شدند از شهر ری ** ماند حیران آن امیر سست پی 395
- He (the King) asked, “When did they set out from the city of Rayy?” The dull-witted Amír remained (silent) in perplexity.
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هم‌چنین تا سی امیر و بیشتر ** سست‌رای و ناقص اندر کر و فر
- So (it went on) till thirty Amírs and more (had been tested): (all were) feeble in judgement and deficient in (mental) power.
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گفت امیران را که من روزی جدا ** امتحان کردم ایاز خویش را
- (Then) he said to the Amírs, “One day I put my Ayáz to the test separately,
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که بپرس از کاروان تا از کجاست ** او برفت این جمله وا پرسید راست
- Saying, ‘Inquire of the caravan (and find out) whence it comes.’ He went and asked all these questions (just) right.
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بی‌وصیت بی‌اشارت یک به یک ** حالشان دریافت بی ریبی و شک
- Without instructions, without a hint (from me), he apprehended everything concerning them, point by point, without any uncertainty or doubt.”
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هر چه زین سی میر اندر سی مقام ** کشف شد زو آن به یکدم شد تمام 400
- Everything that was discovered by these thirty Amírs in thirty stages was completed by him (Ayáz) in one moment.
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مدافعه‌ی امرا آن حجت را به شبهه‌ی جبریانه و جواب دادن شاه ایشان را
- How the Amírs endeavoured to rebut that argument by the Necessitarian error and how the King answered them.