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صد هزاران مرگ تلخ شصت تو ** نیست مانند فراق روی تو 4115
- A hundred thousand bitter sixtyfold deaths are not like (comparable) to separation from thy face.
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تلخی هجر از ذکور و از اناث ** دور دار ای مجرمان را مستغاث
- Keep the bitterness of banishment aloof from males and females, O thou whose help is besought by sinners!
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بر امید وصل تو مردن خوشست ** تلخی هجر تو فوق آتشست
- ‘Tis sweet to die in hope of union with thee; the bitterness of banishment from thee is worse than fire.”
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گبر می‌گوید میان آن سقر ** چه غمم بودی گرم کردی نظر
- Amidst Hell-fire the infidel is saying, “What pain should I feel if He (God) were to look on me (with favour)?”
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کان نظر شیرین کننده‌ی رنجهاست ** ساحران را خونبهای دست و پاست
- For that look makes (all) pains sweet: it is the blood-price (paid) to the magicians (of Pharaoh) for (the amputation of) their hands and feet.
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تفسیر گفتن ساحران فرعون را در وقت سیاست با او کی لا ضیر انا الی ربنا منقلبون
- Commentary on the Saying of Pharaoh's magicians in the hour of their punishment, “’Tis no harm, for lo, we shall return unto our Lord.”
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نعره‌ی لا ضیر بشنید آسمان ** چرخ گویی شد پی آن صولجان 4120
- Heaven heard the cry, “’Tis no harm”: the celestial sphere became a ball for that bat.
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ضربت فرعون ما را نیست ضیر ** لطف حق غالب بود بر قهر غیر
- (The magicians said), “The punishment inflicted by Pharaoh is no harm to us: the grace of God prevails over the violence of (all) others.
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گر بدانی سر ما را ای مضل ** می‌رهانیمان ز رنج ای کوردل
- If thou shouldst (come to) know our secret, O misleader, (thou wouldst see that) thou art delivering us from pain, O man whose heart is blind.
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هین بیا زین سو ببین کین ارغنون ** می‌زند یا لیت قومی یعلمون
- Hark, come and from this quarter behold this organ pealing ‘Oh, would that my people knew!’
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داد ما را داد حق فرعونیی ** نه چو فرعونیت و ملکت فانیی
- God's bounty hath bestowed on us a Pharaohship, (but) not a perishable one like thy Pharaohship and kingdom.