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هم‌چنان کین شاه‌زاده شکر شاه ** کرد استکبار و استکثار جاه
- Just as this prince, in return for the favours of the King, showed arrogance and sought to aggrandise himself,
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که چرا من تابع غیری شوم ** چونک صاحب ملک و اقبال نوم 4845
- Saying, “Why should I become the follower of another when I possess empire and new (splendid) fortune?”
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لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت
- (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
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هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی
- “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).
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این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند
- Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.
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رفته سوی آسمان با جلال ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال
- By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
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صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را 4850
- And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham;
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که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال
- For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,
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هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط
- (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.
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کوری او رست طفل وحی کش ** ماند خون‌های دگر در گردنش
- (But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.