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قصدشان ز انکار ذل دین بده ** عین ذل عز رسولان آمده
- In their unbelief they attempted to abase the (true) religion: that very abasement was turned to glory for the prophets.
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گر نه انکار آمدی از هر بدی ** معجزه و برهان چرا نازل شدی
- How should a judge require (a litigant to give) evidence until his disbelieving opponent has demanded proof of his veracity?
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خصم منکر تا نشد مصداق‌خواه ** کی کند قاضی تقاضای گواه
- How should a judge require (a litigant to give) evidence until his disbelieving, opponent has demanded proof of his veracity?
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معجزه هم‌چون گواه آمد زکی ** بهر صدق مدعی در بی‌شکی 4350
- The miracle (performed by a prophet) is like an honest witness to the indubitable veracity of the claimant.
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طعن چون می‌آمد از هر ناشناخت ** معجزه می‌داد حق و می‌نواخت
- Since they (the prophets) were being attacked by every ignoramus, God bestowed on them the gift of miracles and showed them favour.
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مکر آن فرعون سیصد تو بده ** جمله ذل او و قمع او شده
- The plots of Pharaoh were three-hundredfold: all (of them) became (the means to) his abasement and subjugation.
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ساحران آورده حاضر نیک و بد ** تا که جرح معجزه‌ی موسی کند
- He brought magicians, good and bad, into his presence in order that he might invalidate the miracles of Moses,
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تا عصا را باطل و رسوا کند ** اعتبارش را ز دلها بر کند
- That he might nullify the rod (of Moses) and put it to shame and remove from (men's) hearts the respect (which they had) for it.
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عین آن مکر آیت موسی شود ** اعتبار آن عصا بالا رود 4355
- Those very plots only serve to manifest the veracity of Moses: the prestige of his rod goes up.
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لشکر آرد او پگه تا حول نیل ** تا زند بر موسی و قومش سبیل
- He (Pharaoh) leads his army betimes to the neighbourhood of the Nile in order to waylay Moses and his people;