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سایهای و عاشقی بر آفتاب ** شمس آید سایه لا گردد شتاب
- Thou art a shadow and in love with the sun: the sun comes, the shadow is naughted speedily.
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داد خواستن پشه از باد به حضرت سلیمان علیه السلام
- How, in the presence of Solomon, on whom be peace, the gnat appealed for justice against the Wind.
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پشه آمد از حدیقه وز گیاه ** وز سلیمان گشت پشه دادخواه
- The gnat came from the garden and the grass, and the gnat began to demand justice from Solomon,
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کای سلیمان معدلت میگستری ** بر شیاطین و آدمیزاد و پری 4625
- Saying, “O Solomon, thou dealest out justice to the devils and the children of men and the Jinn.
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مرغ و ماهی در پناه عدل تست ** کیست آن گمگشته کش فضلت نجست
- Bird and fish are under the protection of thy justice: who is the lost one whom thy bounty hath not sought out?
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داد ده ما را که بس زاریم ما ** بینصیب از باغ و گلزاریم ما
- Give justice to us, for we are very miserable: we are deprived of the orchard and the rose-garden.
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مشکلات هر ضعیفی از تو حل ** پشه باشد در ضعیفی خود مثل
- The difficulties of every weakling are solved by thee: the gnat in sooth is the (proverbial) similitude for weakness.
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شهره ما در ضعف و اشکستهپری ** شهره تو در لطف و مسکینپروری
- We are celebrated for weakness and frailty: thou art celebrated for kindness and care of the lowly.
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ای تو در اطباق قدرت منتهی ** منتهی ما در کمی و بیرهی 4630
- O thou who hast reached the limit in (traversing) the stages of Power, (while) we have reached the limit in failure and aberration,
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داد ده ما را ازین غم کن جدا ** دست گیر ای دست تو دست خدا
- Do justice, relieve us from this sorrow, take our hand (to help us), O thou whose hand is the hand of God.”
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پس سلیمان گفت ای انصافجو ** داد و انصاف از که میخواهی بگو
- Then Solomon said, “O seeker of equity, tell (me), against whom art thou demanding justice and equity?
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کیست آن کالم که از باد و بروت ** ظلم کردست و خراشیدست روت
- Who is the oppressor that in (his) insolence has done thee injury and scratched thy face?
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ای عجب در عهد ما ظالم کجاست ** کو نه اندر حبس و در زنجیر ماست
- Oh, wonderful! Where, in Our epoch, is the oppressor that is not in Our prison and chains?
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چونک ما زادیم ظلم آن روز مرد ** پس بعهد ما کی ظلمی پیش برد 4635
- When We were born, on that day Injustice died: who, then, hath produced (committed) in Our epoch an act of injustice?
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چون بر آمد نور ظلمت نیست شد ** ظلم را ظلمت بود اصل و عضد
- When the light dawned, the darkness vanished: darkness is the origin and support of injustice.
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نک شیاطین کسب و خدمت میکنند ** دیگران بسته باصفادند و بند
- Look, (some of) the devils are doing work and service; the others are bound in shackles and bonds.
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اصل ظلم ظالمان از دیو بود ** دیو در بندست استم چون نمود
- The origin of the injustice of the oppressors was from the devil: the devil is in bondage: how did violence appear?
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ملک زان دادست ما را کن فکان ** تا ننالد خلق سوی آسمان
- (The Divine Will uttered in) ‘Be, and it was’ hath bestowed the kingdom on Us, that the people may not cry out in lament to Heaven;
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تا به بالا بر نیاید دودها ** تا نگردد مضطرب چرخ و سها 4640
- That burning sighs may not soar upward; that the sky and the stars may not be shaken;
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تا نلرزد عرش از ناله یتیم ** تا نگردد از ستم جانی سقیم
- That the empyrean may not tremble at the orphan's wail; that no (living) soul may be marred by violence.
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زان نهادیم از ممالک مذهبی ** تا نیاید بر فلکها یا ربی
- We established a law (of justice) throughout the kingdoms (of the earth), to the end that no (cry of) ‘O Lord!’ should go up to the skies.
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منگر ای مظلوم سوی آسمان ** کاسمانی شاه داری در زمان
- O oppressed one, do not look to Heaven, for thou hast a heavenly king in the temporal world.”
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گفت پشه داد من از دست باد ** کو دو دست ظلم بر ما بر گشاد
- The gnat said, “My appeal is against the hand (might) of the Wind, for he opened the two hands of oppression against us.
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ما ز ظلم او به تنگی اندریم ** با لب بسته ازو خون میخوریم 4645
- Through his oppression we are in sore straits: with closed lips we are drinking blood (suffering torment) from him.”
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امرکردن سلیمان علیه السلام پشهی متظلم را به احضار خصم به دیوان حکم
- How Solomon, on whom be peace, commanded the plaintiff gnat to bring its adversary to the court of judgement.
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پس سلیمان گفت ای زیبادوی ** امر حق باید که از جان بشنوی
- Then Solomon said, “O thou with the pretty voice, it behoves thee to hearken with (all thy) soul to the command of God.
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حق به من گفتست هان ای دادور ** مشنو از خصمی تو بی خصمی دگر
- God hath said to me, ‘Beware, O Judge! Do not hear one litigant without the other litigant.