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اهل کشتی از مهابت کاسته ** نعره وا ویلها برخاسته
- The people in the ship were faint with terror: cries of woe had arisen,
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دستها در نوحه بر سر می‌زدند ** کافر و ملحد همه مخلص شدند
- And in lamentation they were beating their heads with their hands: infidel and deist—they all had become sincere (in devotion to God),
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با خدا با صد تضرع آن زمان ** عهدها و نذرها کرده بجان
- Making heartfelt promises and vows to God with a hundred humble entreaties in that hour.
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سر برهنه در سجود آنها که هیچ ** رویشان قبله ندید از پیچ پیچ 2185
- Bare-headed in the prostrate attitude (of Divine worship) were those whose faces, because of (their) perversity, had never seen the qibla at all.
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گفته که بی‌فایده‌ست این بندگی ** آن زمان دیده در آن صد زندگی
- They (formerly) said, “This worship of God is useless”; (but) in that hour (of despair) they saw a hundred lives (precious advantages) therein.
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از همه اومید ببریده تمام ** دوستان و خال و عم بابا و مام
- They had entirely abandoned hope of all—of friends and maternal and paternal uncles and father and mother.
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زاهد و فاسق شد آن دم متقی ** همچو در هنگام جان کندن شقی
- At that moment ascetic and reprobate (alike) had become God-fearing as a wicked man at the time of the death-agony.
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نه ز چپشان چاره بود و نه ز راست ** حیله‌ها چون مرد هنگام دعاست
- Neither on the left nor on the right was there any help for them: when (all) expedients are dead, (then) is the time to invoke God.
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در دعا ایشان و در زاری و آه ** بر فلک زیشان شده دود سیاه 2190
- They were (engaged) in invocation and lament and moaning: a black smoke went up from them to heaven.
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دیو آن دم از عداوت بین بین ** بانگ زد کای سگ‌پرستان علتین
- Then the Devil cried in enmity, “Avaunt! Avaunt! O dog-worshippers, (ye shall be afflicted with) two maladies.