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دفتر سوم - بخش ۲۶ - قصهٔ خواب دیدن فرعون آمدن موسی را علیه السلام و تدارک اندیشیدن / Book Three - Section 26 - The Story of Pharaoh Dreaming of the Coming of Moses, Peace Be Upon Him, and Devising a Stratagem

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جهد فرعونی چو بی توفیق بود
هرچه او می دوخت آن تفتیق بود

از منجم بود در حکمش هزار
وز معبر نیز و ساحر بی شمار

مقدم موسی نمودندش بخواب
که کند فرعون و ملکش را خراب

با معبر گفت و با اهل نجوم
چون بود دفع خیال و خواب شوم

جمله گفتندش که تدبیری کنیم
راه زادن را چو ره زن می زنیم

تا رسید آن شب که مولد بود آن
رای این دیدند آن فرعونیان

که برون آرند آن روز از پگاه
سوی میدان بزم و تخت پادشاه

الصلا ای جمله اسرائیلیان
شاه می خواند شما را زان مکان

تا شما را رو نماید بی نقاب
بر شما احسان کند بهر ثواب

کان اسیران را به جز دوری نبود
دیدن فرعون دستوری نبود

گر فتادندی به ره در پیش او
بهر آن یاسه بخفتندی برو

یاسه این بد که نبیند هیچ اسیر
در گه و بیگه لقای آن امیر

بانگ چاووشان چو در ره بشنود
تا نبیند رو به دیواری کند

ور ببیند روی او مجرم بود
آنچ بتر بر سر او آن رود

بودشان حرص لقای ممتنع
چون حریصست آدمی فیما منع

English translation

As Pharaoh's striving was without tawfīq, Whatever he stitched, that was its unraveling.

There were a thousand astrologers in his command, And dream-interpreters as well, and sorcerers without number.

The coming of Moses was shown to him in a dream — That he would lay Pharaoh and his kingdom to ruin.

He spoke with the dream-interpreter and with the people of the stars: "How can this vision and ominous dream be averted?"

They all told him: "We will devise a stratagem; We will waylay the path of birth like a highwayman."

Until that night arrived when that birth was to be — Those Pharaonians devised this counsel:

That they would bring them out that day at dawn Toward the festival field and the king's throne.

"Ho! All you Children of Israel — The king summons you from that place,

That he may show you his face unveiled And bestow kindness upon you for the sake of merit" —

For those captives there was nothing but distance; To see Pharaoh was not permitted.

If they happened to fall in his path before him, For the sake of that yāsa they would prostrate themselves face-down.

The yāsa was this: that no captive should see — At any hour, timely or untimely — the face of that commander.

When he heard the cry of the chāwūshān upon the road, So as not to see, he would turn his face to a wall.

And if he saw his face, he was guilty — Whatever was worse would befall him.

They had craving for the forbidden encounter, For a human being is greedy for what is withheld (fīmā muni'a).

Updated 2026-06-30

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