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God / the Almightyخدا

The God of the mosque and of Arabic prayer, whom the narrator finds 'too much for me' and suspects is a projection of earthly rulers; the nurse wishes God would kill him to give him ease.

God / the Almighty, from The Blind Owl: ink-and-wash drawing
Kind
Person
Persian
خدا / قادر متعال
Also called
خدا، خدایی
First appears
P151.L02
Lines
4
GNML id
ent_god

In the scenes

Where the text names them

P151.L02

شنیدم به عروسش گفت: «همه‌مون دل‌ضعفه شدیم؛ کاشکی خدا بکشدش راحتش کنه.»

I heard her say to her daughter-in-law, “We have all grown faint at heart; if only God would kill him and put him at ease.”

P153.L08

ولی هیچوقت نه مسجد و نه صدای اذان و نه وضو و نه اخ و تف انداختن و دولا راست شدن در مقابل یک قادر متعال و صاحب اختیار مطلق که باید به زبان عربی با او اختلاط کرد در من تأثیری نداشته است.

But neither the mosque nor the call to prayer nor ablution nor spitting and bending down and straightening up before an almighty being possessed of absolute power, with whom one must converse in Arabic, had ever had any effect on me.

P153.L12

ولی تلفظ این کلمات از ته دل نبود، چون من بیشتر خوشم می‌آمد با یک نفر دوست یا آشنا حرف بزنم تا با خدا ـ با قادر متعال! چون خدا از سر من زیاد بود.

But the utterance of these words was not from the bottom of my heart, because I preferred to speak with a friend or acquaintance rather than with God—with the Almighty! For God was too much for me.

P153.L13

زمانی که در یک رختخواب گرم و نمناک خوابیده بودم همه این مسائل برایم به اندازه جوی ارزش نداشت؛ و در این موقع نمی‌خواستم بدانم که حقیقتا خدایی وجود دارد یا اینکه فقط مظهر فرمانروایان روی زمین است که برای استحکام مقام الوهیت و چاپیدن رعایای خود تصور کرده‌اند، تصویر روی زمین را به آسمان منعکس کرده‌اند!

As I lay in a warm, damp bed, all these matters were not worth a grain of barley to me; and at that moment I did not wish to know whether a God truly existed, or whether he was merely a representation invented by earthly rulers to reinforce their divine status and exploit their subjects, projecting an image of the earth into heaven!

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