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خبث و ظلم و جور چندان ساختند ** که مرا از شر به خیر انداختند
- They wrought so much wickedness and injustice and oppression that they cast (drove) me forth from evil into good.
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هر گهی که رو به دنیا کردمی ** من ازیشان زخم و ضربت خوردمی
- Whenever I turned my face towards this world, I suffered blows and beating from them,
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کردمی از زخم آن جانب پناه ** باز آوردندمی گرگان به راه
- And took refuge from the blows Yonder: the wolves were always bringing me back into the (right) Way.
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چون سبب‌ساز صلاح من شدند ** پس دعاشان بر منست ای هوشمند 90
- Inasmuch as they contrived the means of my (spiritual) welfare, it behoves me to pray for them, O intelligent one.”
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بنده می‌نالد به حق از درد و نیش ** صد شکایت می‌کند از رنج خویش
- The servant (of God) complains to God of pain and smart: he makes a hundred complaints of his pain.
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حق همی گوید که آخر رنج و درد ** مر ترا لابه کنان و راست کرد
- God says, “After all, grief and pain have made thee humbly entreating and righteous.
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این گله زان نعمتی کن کت زند ** از در ما دور و مطرودت کند
- Make this complaint of the bounty that befalls thee and removes thee far from My door and makes thee an outcast.”
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در حقیقت هر عدو داروی تست ** کیمیا و نافع و دلجوی تست
- In reality every foe (of yours) is your medicine: he is an elixir and beneficial and one that seeks to win your heart;
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که ازو اندر گریزی در خلا ** استعانت جویی از لطف خدا 95
- For you flee away from him into solitude and would fain implore help of God's grace.
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در حقیقت دوستانت دشمن‌اند ** که ز حضرت دور و مشغولت کنند
- Your friends are really enemies, for they make you far from the (Divine) Presence and occupied (with them).