How Moses, on whom be peace
From Rumi’s Masnavi (مثنوی معنوی), Book 4, section 105 of 137: How Moses, despaired of Pharaoh’s accepting the true faith, because the words of Hámán made an impression on Pharaoh’s heart (نومید شدن موسی علیه‌السلام از ایمام فرعون به تاثیر کردن سخن هامان در دل فرعون). Below, each of its 10 couplets is given in Persian, followed by R. A. Nicholson’s English translation.
How Moses, on whom be peace, despaired of Pharaoh’s accepting the true faith, because the words of Hámán made an impression on Pharaoh’s heart. نومید شدن موسی علیه‌السلام از ایمام فرعون به تاثیر کردن سخن هامان در دل فرعون
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Moses said, “We have shown kindness and generosity, (but) verily it was not the portion allotted to thy dominion.
آن خداوندی که نبود راستین
مر ورا نه دست دان نه آستین
The dominion that is not righteous regard it as having neither hand nor sleeve
آن خداوندی که دزدیده بود
بی دل و بی جان و بی دیده بود
The dominion that is stolen (usurped) is without heart and without soul and without eye.
آن خداوندی که دادندت عوام
باز بستانند از تو هم‌چو وام
The dominion which the vulgar have given to thee they will take back from thee as a debt.
ده خداوندی عاریت به حق
تا خداوندیت بخشد متفق
Give up to God the dominion held on loan, that He may bestow on thee the dominion to which all consent.”
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