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  • هم در آخر عجز خود را او بدید  ** مرده شد دین عجایز را گزید 
  • He (such an one) is conscious of being helpless both in the stable (of the present life) and in the last (future) state: he is dead (to self), he has adopted “the old women's religion.”

  • چون زلیخا یوسفش بر وی بتافت  ** از عجوزی در جوانی راه یافت 
  • (He is) like Zalíkhá, (who), when Joseph beamed upon her, found the way from decrepitude to youth.

  • زندگی در مردن و در محنتست  ** آب حیوان در درون ظلمتست  4830
  • Life depends on dying (to self) and on suffering tribulation: the Water of Life is in the (Land of) Darkness.

  • رجوع کردن به قصه‌ی پروردن حق تعالی نمرود را بی‌واسطه‌ی مادر و دایه در طفلی 
  • Resuming the Story of the most High God's bringing up Nimrod in his childhood without the intervention of mother and nurse.

  • حاصل آن روضه چو باغ عارفان  ** از سموم صرصر آمد در امان 
  • “In short, that garden, like the (spiritual) orchard of gnostics, was secure from the simoom and the sarsar wind.

  • یک پلنگی طفلکان نو زاده بود  ** گفتم او را شیر ده طاعت نمود 
  • A leopardess (there) had newly given birth to cubs: I bade her give milk to him (Nimrod), and she obeyed.

  • پس بدادش شیر و خدمتهاش کرد  ** تا که بالغ گشت و زفت و شیرمرد 
  • So she gave him milk and tended him till he grew up and became strong and valiant.

  • چون فطامش شد بگفتم با پری  ** تا در آموزید نطق و داوری 
  • When he was weaned, I told the peris (Jinn) to teach him how to discourse and deal justice.

  • پرورش دادم مر او را زان چمن  ** کی بگفت اندر بگنجد فن من  4835
  • I gave him nourishment from that garden: how should (the description of) My artfulness be contained in words.

  • داده من ایوب را مهر پدر  ** بهر مهمانی کرمان بی‌ضرر 
  • I bestowed on Job a father's love in order that he might entertain the worms hospitably and do them no harm.

  • داده کرمان را برو مهر ولد  ** بر پدر من اینت قدرت اینت ید 
  • I bestowed on the worms love for him like that of children for their father. Look, here is (a token of My) Power, here is (a token of My) Hand!

  • مادران را داب من آموختم  ** چون بود لطفی که من افروختم 
  • I have taught mothers to care (for their children): how (infinite) must be the kindness that I have kindled!

  • صد عنایت کردم و صد رابطه  ** تا ببیند لطف من بی‌واسطه 
  • (Unto him) I showed a hundred favours and (knit) a hundred ties (of obligation), that he might experience My kindness directly,

  • تا نباشد از سبب در کش‌مکش  ** تا بود هر استعانت از منش  4840
  • And not be distracted by any secondary cause, to the end that every call for help should be made by him to Me,

  • ورنه تا خود هیچ عذری نبودش  ** شکوتی نبود ز هر یار بدش 
  • Or at least that he should have no excuse (for turning elsewhere) and no occasion to complain of any evil companion.

  • این حضانه دید با صد رابطه  ** که بپروردم ورا بی‌واسطه 
  • He enjoyed this tender care (cemented) by a hundred ties, for I fostered him (Myself) without an intermediary.

  • شکر او آن بود ای بنده‌ی جلیل  ** که شد او نمرود و سوزنده‌ی خلیل 
  • His thanks, O honoured servant, were this, that he became Nimrod and the burner of Khalíl (Abraham)”—

  • هم‌چنان کین شاه‌زاده شکر شاه  ** کرد استکبار و استکثار جاه 
  • Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,

  • که چرا من تابع غیری شوم  ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم  4845
  • Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”

  • لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت  ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت 
  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—

  • هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را  ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی 
  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).

  • این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند  ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند 
  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.

  • رفته سوی آسمان با جلال  ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال 
  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,

  • صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را  ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را  4850
  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham;

  • که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال  ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال 
  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,

  • هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط  ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط 
  • (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.