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  • سگ نیم تا پرچم مرده کنم ** عیسی‌ام آیم که تا زنده‌ش کنم
  • I am not a dog that I should tear off the top-knot of the dead; I am (like) Jesus: I come to make him (the dead) living.
  • زان همی‌کردم صفوف جنگ چاک ** تا رهانم مر شما را از هلاک
  • I was cleaving the battle-ranks for the purpose that I might deliver you from destruction.
  • زان نمی‌برم گلوهای بشر ** تا مرا باشد کر و فر و حشر
  • I do not cut men's throats in order that power and glory and followers may be mine,
  • زان همی‌برم گلویی چند تا ** زان گلوها عالمی یابد رها 4555
  • (But) I cut some throats in order that a (whole) world (of people) may obtain deliverance from those throats,
  • که شما پروانه‌وار از جهل خویش ** پیش آتش می‌کنید این حمله کیش
  • For ye in your ignorance make a habit of rushing thus, like moths, at the fire,
  • من همی‌رانم شما را همچو مست ** از در افتادن در آتش با دو دست
  • (While) I, (furiously) as a drunken man, drive you away with both hands (to save you) from falling into the fire.
  • آنک خود را فتحها پنداشتید ** تخم منحوسی خود می‌کاشتید
  • That which ye deemed victories for yourselves—(thereby) ye were sowing the seed of your damnation.
  • یکدگر را جد جد می‌خواندید ** سوی اژدرها فرس می‌راندید
  • Ye were calling one another most earnestly (to fight against me), (and by doing so) ye were riding your horses towards the dragon.
  • قهر می‌کردید و اندر عین قهر ** خود شما مقهور قهر شیر دهر 4560
  • Ye were overpowering (me), whilst in the very act of overpowering ye yourselves were being overpowered by the lion (which is) Time.”
  • بیان آنک طاغی در عین قاهری مقهورست و در عین منصوری ماسور
  • Showing that the rebellious sinner in the very act of overpowering is overpowered, and in the very moment of victory is made captive.
  • دزد قهرخواجه کرد و زر کشید ** او بدان مشغول خود والی رسید
  • The robber overpowered (murdered) the merchant and carried off the gold: he was just engaged in that (business), (when) the magistrate arrived.