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پای گاو اندر میان آری ز داو ** رو ندوزد حق بر اسپی شاخ گاو
- You (the ‘Imádu ’l-Mulk) drag in the ox in order to cheat (me): begone, God does not stick the horns of an ox upon a horse.”
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بس مناسب صنعتست این شهره زاو ** کی نهد بر جسم اسپ او عضو گاو
- This renowned Master-builder observes great congruity in His workmanship: how should He attach to a horse's body part of (the body of) an ox?
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زاو ابدان را مناسب ساخته ** قصرهای منتقل پرداخته
- The Master-builder has made (all) bodies congruously: He has constructed moving palaces,
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در میان قصرها تخریج‌ها ** از سوی این سوی آن صهریج‌ها
- (With) balconies in them and cisterns (distributing water) from this (part of the palace) to that;
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وز درونشان عالمی بی‌منتها ** در میان خرگهی چندین فضا 3510
- And within them an infinite world: all this (vast) expanse (is contained) in a single tent.
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گه چو کابوسی نماید ماه را ** گه نماید روضه قعر چاه را
- Now He causes (one beautiful as) the moon to seem like an incubus (nightmare), now He causes the bottom of a well to have the semblance of a garden.
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قبض و بسط چشم دل از ذوالجلال ** دم به دم چون می‌کند سحر حلال
- Inasmuch as the closing and opening of the eye of the heart by the Almighty is continually working lawful magic,
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زین سبب درخواست از حق مصطفی ** زشت را هم زشت و حق را حق‌نما
- For this reason Mustafá (Mohammed) entreated God, saying, “Let the false appear as false and the true as true,
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تا به آخر چون بگردانی ورق ** از پشیمانی نه افتم در قلق
- So that at last, when Thou turnest the leaf, I may not (be stricken) by sorrow (and) fall into agitation.”
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مکر که کرد آن عماد الملک فرد ** مالک الملکش بدان ارشاد کرد 3515
- (’Twas) the Lord of the Kingdom (that) guided the peerless ‘Imádu ’l- Mulk to the deception which he practised.