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یک غریبی شاعری از راه رسید ** روز عاشورا و آن افغان شنید
- A stranger, (who was) a poet, arrived from the road on the Day of ‘Áshúrá and heard that lamentation.
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شهر را بگذاشت و آن سوی رای کرد ** قصد جست و جوی آن هیهای کرد
- He left the city and resolved (to go) in that direction: he set out to investigate (the cause of) those shrill cries.
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پرس پرسان می‌شد اندر افتقاد ** چیست این غم بر که این ماتم فتاد
- He went along, asking many questions in his search—“What is this sorrow? Whose death has occasioned this mourning?
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این رئیس زفت باشد که بمرد ** این چنین مجمع نباشد کار خرد 785
- It must be a great personage who has died: such a concourse is no small affair.
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نام او و القاب او شرحم دهید ** که غریبم من شما اهل دهید
- Inform me of his name and titles, for I am a stranger and ye belong to the town.
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چیست نام و پیشه و اوصاف او ** تا بگویم مرثیه ز الطاف او
- What is his name and profession and character? (Tell me) in order that I may compose an elegy on his gracious qualities.
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مرثیه سازم که مرد شاعرم ** تا ازینجا برگ و لالنگی برم
- I will make an elegy—for I am a poet—that I may carry away from here some provision and morsels of food.”
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آن یکی گفتش که هی دیوانه‌ای ** تو نه‌ای شیعه عدو خانه‌ای
- “Eh,” said one (of them), “are you mad? You are not a Shí‘ite, you are an enemy of the (Holy) Family.
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روز عاشوار نمی‌دانی که هست ** ماتم جانی که از قرنی بهست 790
- Don't you know that the Day of ‘Áshúrá is (a day of) mourning for a single soul that is more excellent than a (whole) generation?
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پیش مومن کی بود این غصه خوار ** قدر عشق گوش عشق گوشوار
- How should this anguish (tragedy) be lightly esteemed by the true believer? Love for the ear-ring is in proportion to love for the ear.