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  • (Hence) the King's favours, of which the tale has been told above, were veiled from his heart (in oblivion) by his outrageous insolence—
  • لطف‌های شه که ذکر آن گذشت  ** از تجبر بر دلش پوشیده گشت 
  • “Even so did Nimrod ignorantly and blindly trample underfoot those favours (of Mine).
  • هم‌چنان نمرود آن الطاف را  ** زیر پا بنهاد از جهل و عمی 
  • Now he has become an infidel and is waylaying (the faithful): he is acting with arrogance and pretending to Divinity.
  • این زمان کافر شد و ره می‌زند  ** کبر و دعوی خدایی می‌کند 
  • By means of three vultures he has gone (flown) towards august Heaven in order to battle with Me,
  • رفته سوی آسمان با جلال  ** با سه کرکس تا کند با من قتال 
  • And has killed a hundred thousand innocent children (in the hope) that he may find Abraham; 4850
  • صد هزاران طفل بی‌تلویم را  ** کشته تا یابد وی ابراهیم را 
  • For the astrologers declared that, according to the forecast for the year, there would be born an adversary to combat him,
  • که منجم گفته کاندر حکم سال  ** زاد خواهد دشمنی بهر قتال 
  • (And said), ‘Hark, take precautions to repel that enemy’; (so) in his craziness he would fain kill every child that was born.
  • هین بکن در دفع آن خصم احتیاط  ** هر که می‌زایید می‌کشت از خباط 
  • (But), to confound him, the inspired child was saved; the blood of (all) the others remained (as a burden of guilt) upon his neck.
  • کوری او رست طفل وحی کش  ** ماند خون‌های دگر در گردنش 
  • Oh, ’tis wonderful! Did he obtain that empire from his father so that (in consequence) he was befooled by the darkness of noble lineage?
  • از پدر یابید آن ملک ای عجب  ** تا غرورش داد ظلمات نسب 
  • (Nay); if father and mother were an obstacle (cause of delusion) to others, he derived the jewels in his pocket from Me.” 4855
  • دیگران را گر ام و اب شد حجاب  ** او ز ما یابید گوهرها به جیب