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این جهان بر شاه چون زندان شده ** وین پسر بر گریه‌شان خندان شده
- This world had become (as) a prison to the king, while this son (of his) was laughing at their tears.
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شاه بس بیچاره شد در برد و مات ** روز و شب می‌کرد قربان و زکات
- The king became exceedingly desperate in the struggle (to save his son): day and night he was offering sacrifice and giving alms (but without avail),
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زانک هر چاره که می‌کرد آن پدر ** عشق کمپیرک همی‌شد بیشتر 3155
- For whatever remedy the father might apply, (the son's) love for the old hag would always increase.
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پس یقین گشتش که مطلق آن سریست ** چاره او را بعد از این لابه گریست
- Then it became clear to him that that (infatuation) was absolutely a (Divine) mystery, and that thenceforth his (only) remedy was supplication.
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سجده می‌کرد او که هم فرمان تراست ** غیر حق بر ملک حق فرمان کراست
- He was prostrating himself in prayer, saying, “It beseems Thee to command: to whom but God belongeth the command over God's kingdom?
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لیک این مسکین همی‌سوزد چو عود ** دست گیرش ای رحیم و ای ودود
- But this poor wretch is burning like aloes-wood: take his hand (help him), O Merciful and Loving One!”
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تا ز یا رب یا رب و افغان شاه ** ساحری استاد پیش آمد ز راه
- (So did he pray) until, because of the “O Lord! O Lord!” and lamentation of the king, a master-magician came from the road into his presence.
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مستجاب شدن دعای پادشاه در خلاص پسرش از جادوی کابلی
- How the king's prayer for the deliverance of his son from the witch of Kábul was granted.
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او شنیده بود از دور این خبر ** که اسیر پیرزن گشت آن پسر 3160
- He had heard from afar the news that that boy had been captivated by an old woman,
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کان عجوزه بود اندر جادوی ** بی‌نظیر و آمن از مثل و دوی
- A crone who in witchery was unrivalled and secure from likeness and duality.
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دست بر بالای دستست ای فتی ** در فن و در زور تا ذات خدا
- Hand is above hand, O youth, in skill and in strength up to the Essence of God.