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دفتر سوم - بخش ۱۲۳ - متهم داشتن قوم انبیا را / Book Three - Section 123 - The People Accusing the Prophets

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قوم گفتند این همه زرقست و مکر
کی خدا نایب کند از زید و بکر

هر رسول شاه باید جنس او
آب و گل کو خالق افلاک کو

مغز خر خوردیم تا ما چون شما
پشه را داریم همراز هما

کو هما کو پشه کو گل کو خدا
ز آفتاب چرخ چه بود ذره را

این چه نسبت این چه پیوندی بود
تاکه در عقل و دماغی در رود

English translation

The people said: "All of this is fraud and trickery — When would God appoint a deputy from mere Zayd and Bakr?

Every royal envoy must be of the king's own kind — Where is water and clay? Where is the Creator of the heavens?

Have we eaten donkey's brain, that we, like you, should hold a gnat to be the confidant of the huma?

Where is the huma, where is the gnat, where is clay, where is God? What is a mote to the sun of the celestial sphere?

What relation is this, what bond could this be, that it should enter into any mind or brain?"

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