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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.
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تانیاید هر دو خصم اندر حضور ** حق نیاید پیش حاکم در ظهور
- Until both litigants come into the presence, the truth does not come to light before the judge.
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خصم تنها گر بر آرد صد نفیر ** هان و هان بی خصم قول او مگیر
- If the (one) litigant alone raise a hundred clamours, beware, beware! Do not accept his word without (hearing) his adversary.’
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من نیارم رو ز فرمان تافتن ** خصم خود را رو بیاور سوی من 4650
- I dare not avert my face from the (Divine) command. Go, bring thy adversary before me.”
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گفت قول تست برهان و درست ** خصم من بادست و او در حکم تست
- It (the gnat) said, “Thy words are an argument (conclusive) and sound. My adversary is the Wind, and he is in thy jurisdiction.”
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بانگ زد آن شه که ای باد صبا ** پشه افغان کرد از ظلمت بیا
- The King shouted, “O East-wind, the gnat complains of thy injustice: come!
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هین مقابل شو تو و خصم و بگو ** پاسخ خصم و بکن دفع عدو
- Hark, come face to face with thy adversary and reply to thy adversary and rebut thy opponent.”
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باد چون بشنید آمد تیز تیز ** پشه بگرفت آن زمان راه گریز
- When the Wind heard (the summons), he came very rapidly: the gnat at once took to flight.
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پس سلیمان گفت ای پشه کجا ** باش تا بر هر دو رانم من قضا 4655
- Then Solomon said, “O gnat, where (art thou going)? Stop, that I may pass judgement on (you) both.”