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دفتر چهارم - بخش ۹۶ - گفتن موسی علیه‌السلام فرعون را کی از من یک پند قبول کن و چهار فضیلت عوض بستان / Book Four - Section 96 - Moses, Peace Be Upon Him, Telling Pharaoh: 'Accept One Counsel from Me and Receive Four Virtues in Exchange'

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هین ز من بپذیر یک چیز و بیارپس ز من بستان عوض آن را چهار
Heed! Accept one thing from me and bring it forth;
Then receive from me four things in return.
گفت ای موسی کدامست آن یکیشرح کن با من از آن یک اندکی
He said: O Moses, what is that one thing?
Explain to me a little of that one.
گفت آن یک که بگویی آشکارکه خدایی نیست غیر کردگار
He said: That one is that you declare openly
That there is no god except the Creator—
خالق افلاک و انجم بر علامردم و دیو و پری و مرغ را
Creator of the heavens and the stars on high,
Of humans and demons and fairies and birds;
خالق دریا و دشت و کوه و تیهملکت او بی حد و او بی شبیه
Creator of sea and plain and mountain and wilderness,
His dominion without bound and He without likeness.
گفت ای موسی کدامست آن چهارکه عوض بدهی مرا بر گو بیار
He said: O Moses, what are those four
That you would give me in exchange? Come, speak,
تا بود کز لطف آن وعدهٔ حسنسست گردد چارمیخ کفر من
So that perhaps through the grace of that fair promise
The four nails of my unbelief may loosen;
بوک زان خوش وعده های مغتنمبرگشاید قفل کفر صد منم
Perhaps through those precious, sweet promises
The lock of my hundred-maund unbelief may open;
بوک از تاثیر جوی انگبینشهد گردد در تنم این زهر کین
Perhaps through the effect of the river of honey
This poison of malice within my body may turn to sweetness;
یا ز عکس جوی آن پاکیزه شیرپرورش یابد دمی عقل اسیر
Or from the reflection of that pure river of milk
My captive reason may be nourished for a moment;
یا بود کز عکس آن جوهای خمرمست گردم بو برم از ذوق امر
Or perhaps from the reflection of those rivers of wine
I may become drunk and catch a scent of the taste of the Divine Command;
یا بود کز لطف آن جوهای آبتازگی یابد تن شورهٔ خراب
Or perhaps through the grace of those rivers of water
My ruined, salt-encrusted body may find freshness—
شوره ام را سبزه ای پیدا شودخارزارم جنت ماوی شود
Some greenery may appear in my barren salt-land,
My thorn-field may become Jannat al-Ma'wā;
بوک از عکس بهشت و چار جوجان شود از یاری حق یارجو
Perhaps from the reflection of Paradise and its four rivers
The soul may, through God's help, become a seeker of the Friend—
آنچنان که از عکس دوزخ گشته امآتش و در قهر حق آغشته ام
Just as from the reflection of Hell I have become
Fire itself, steeped in God's wrath;
گه ز عکس مار دوزخ هم چو مارگشته ام بر اهل جنت زهربار
Sometimes, from the reflection of Hell's serpent, like a serpent,
I have poured venom upon the people of Paradise;
گه ز عکس جوشش آب حمیمآب ظلمم کرده خلقان را رمیم
Sometimes, from the reflection of the boiling waters of ḥamīm,
The water of my tyranny has caused people to decay;
من ز عکس زمهریرم زمهریریا ز عکس آن سعیرم چون سعیر
I am zamharīr from the reflection of zamharīr,
Or I am like sa'īr from the reflection of that sa'īr.
دوزخ درویش و مظلومم کنونوای آنک یابمش ناگه زبون
I am now Hell to the poor and the oppressed;
Woe to the one whom I suddenly find helpless.

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