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  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
  • رفته سوی آسمان با جلال  ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال 
  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham; 4850
  • صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را  ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را 
  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,
  • که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال  ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال 
  • (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.
  • هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط  ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط 
  • (But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.
  • کوری او رست طفل وحی کش  ** ماند خون‌های دگر در گردنش 
  • Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?
  • از پدر یابید آن ملک ای عجب  ** تا غرورش داد ظلمات نسب 
  • (Nay); if father and mother were an obstacle (cause of delusion) to others, he derived the jewels in his pocket from Me.” 4855
  • دیگران را گر ام و اب شد حجاب  ** او ز ما یابید گوهرها به جیب 
  • Assuredly thy wicked carnal soul is a rapacious wolf: why art thou laying the blame on every comrade (neighbour)?
  • گرگ درنده‌ست نفس بد یقین  ** چه بهانه می‌نهی بر هر قرین 
  • In its misguidedness the foul disbelieving unconscionable carnal soul is (like) a cap for (concealing the diseased condition of) a hundred baldpates.
  • در ضلالت هست صد کل را کله  ** نفس زشت کفرناک پر سفه 
  • For this reason, O poor slave (of God), I am always saying, “Do not remove the collar from the neck of the cur.”
  • زین سبب می‌گویم این بنده‌ی فقیر  ** سلسله از گردن سگ برمگیر