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ابر را گفته برو باران مریز ** برق را گفته برو مگرای تیز
- I told the clouds not to rain upon him; I told the lightning not to dart at him.
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زین چمن ای دی مبران اعتدال ** پنجه ای بهمن برین روضه ممال
- I said, ‘O December, do not cut off the mild weather from this orchard; O November, do not let thy fist fall on this garden.’”
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کرامات شیخ شیبان راعی قدس الله روحه العزیز
- The miracles of Shaybán Rá‘í, may God sanctify his venerable spirit!
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هم‌چو آن شیبان که از گرگ عنید ** وقت جمعه بر رعا خط می‌کشید 4815
- Just as Shaybán Rá‘í (the shepherd), because of the froward wolf, used to draw a line round his flock at the hour of the Friday prayers,
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تا برون ناید از آن خط گوسفند ** نه در آید گرگ و دزد با گزند
- In order that no sheep should go beyond that line, and that no wolf or mischievous robber should come inside.
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بر مثال دایره‌ی تعویذ هود ** که اندر آن صرصر امان آل بود
- ’Twas on the model of Húd's circle of refuge, in which his followers were safe from the sarsar wind.
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هشت روزی اندرین خط تن زنید ** وز برون مثله تماشا می‌کنید
- (Húd said to them), “Stay quietly within this line for eight days and view the terrible mutilation (which is being inflicted) outside.”
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بر هوا بردی فکندی بر حجر ** تا دریدی لحم و عظم از هم‌دگر
- It (the wind) lifted (the unbelievers) into the air and flung them on the stones, so that flesh and bone were torn asunder.
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یک گره را بر هوا درهم زدی ** تا چو خشخاش استخوان ریزان شدی 4820
- One party it hurled against each other in the air, so that their bones crumbled like poppy-seed.
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آن سیاست را که لرزید آسمان ** مثنوی اندر نگنجد شرح آن
- There is no room in the Mathnawí to describe fully that chastisement whereat Heaven trembled.
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گر به طبع این می‌کنی ای باد سرد ** گرد خط و دایره‌ی آن هود گرد
- If, O icy wind, thou art doing this by (thine own) nature, (then) try to invade the line and circle drawn by Húd!