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(Iran is known to have 10.000 years of civilization, so the poet says it's the 'mother' of history or the creator of it.)
Oh the land whose soil I am in need of (and am bound to)
Oh, your desert is my soul's heaven
(in Farsi desert is a place in which no plant grows and in Iran we have plenty of it. The poet says that even the deserts of Iran are as good as the heaven to him)
Oh my eternal Love, Oh my Iran
Oh, (the land which) my roots have been given life to by you.
(the poet says that he's a tree and its roots are living by the life Iran has given them)
Except thinking of you, I have no other thinking.
You have a certain man named Arash, who's famous for shooting arrows
(A very famous poet in Iran, named Ferdosi, has a very very famous book named Shahnameh, and Arash is one of the main charecters in the book an dis very skillful at shooting arrows using his bow)
And a Bahram, famous for killing and huntin lions
(Bahram is another charecter of Shahnameh, and is very powerful and hunts lions as a hoby with his hands!)
A Kavey Ahangar who finally kills Zahhak
(These two are two more charecters of Shahnameh and Zahhak is a very cruel king whose shoulders have been kissed by teh devil and two snakes have grown on them the food of which is only human brain. So Zahhak has to kill people and empty their skulls and give their brains to te snakes and is finally killed by Kaveh who's a Black Smith.)
(and is) Very powerful and teh killer of those who are impure in their souls.
A horse named Rakhsh, and a very powerful man named Rostam who rides it,
(Rostam and Rakhsh are again from that book and the very main charecters. Rostam is very powerful and fights against the evil powers.)
that your enemies cannot even dream of them (Rakhsh and Rostam) in their sleeps.
(you also have) Soldiers who are very brave and keep the borders and are not afraid of death (and are willing to sacrifice their loves for the country)
And armies whose soldiers stand in rows (armed and ready)
They (the soldiers) even bothered the plains and rivers (by roaming an dfighting on them)
and took back Khorramshahr
(Khorramshahr is acity in southern Iran, that was ocupied by Iraqi soldiers during the eight years of war between Iran and Iraq, but finally we took it back.)
Oh my fatherland, oh my modest mother
(The word 'Iran' means modest or modesty in its roots. here the poet uses the word not as thename of a country, but as an adjective for the word mother)
Oh the mother of my fathers an dmy children,
Oh my home, my land,
Each part of your soil, even as small as a palm of a hand, is as dear and precious to me as are my sister, wife and mother.
(In Iran men are very caring about the women who are in their family an dtehy mean most precious to them)
I never want to see you in ruins,
I never want to see your plains empty of lions
(here the poet has likened the soldiers to lions and says that he wants to see teh country always full of those who guard it.)
If your soil no longer exists, I wish for my life to vanish too.
I also wish that (if your soil is no longer ours and you're not name diran anymore) no person remains alive in the entire country.
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Fatherland means all water and all soil
(all that there is in Iran is my fatherland, be it soil or water)
fatherland means Love, and pure love (not just any love)
Means a cradle when you're a baby
And the solution to your problems when you get old
Father land means : father, mother, all ansectors
To vow to the blood and soil (that you'll remain loyal to the country)
Fatherland means identity, genitor and root
the beginning, the end and all eternity.
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(it means) Sepid ( river in Iran) and rocks and the sea and all plains
Aras, Zayanderood, Arvand, Karoon (all rivers in Iran)
fatherland means the home of Turks (Iran's north-west) up to the home of Pars (Iran's south-east)
Fatherland means teh gulf that'll remain named Fars for ever
(Arabs recently wanted to change its name to Arab gulf instead of Persian-Fars-gulf!!)
Fatherland means forgetting about your life (and getting ready to die for teh country)
And reaching very tough-to-cross places (In the war between Iran and Iraq, there were some places that no human could normally pass, such as mountains, but our soldiers did it!)
washing the land off from tyranny and enmity,
By the warm blood in the public bath of Fin.
(this talks about a man named Amir kabir who fought against the king of Iran in about 300 years ago an dwas finally killed in a bath named Fin by having the vessles in his hands cut. Poet says that his warm blood washed away the cruelty from Iran.)
Fatherland means saying the prayers in love
means cleaning the dust from Love,
Fatherland means goal, means courage
means honor, means martyrdom
Fatherland means teh past, the present and teh future
All a nation has from the entire world
Fatherland means, be it in ruins or flourishing,
fatherland means right here, means Iraaaaan.
fatherland means getting rid of fire (war) and blood (that's shed in war)
The anger of Kaveh an dFereydoon (two of the charectors in Shahnameh, who conquered cruel kings in their time)
fatherland means what Simorgh would be telling now
(Simorgh is a legendary bird from Shahnameh who is very wise and helps Rostam with his missions)
and it means what happened on Zhalezar (square in Tehran, in which our ex-king, Shah, orderd his soldiers to open fire on innocent people before our revolution)
it means moving the army to Khuzestan ( a place in Iran)
And accepting martyrdom very easily and willingly
saying prayers while covered in blood to the city of Blood
(Khoramshahr is a city in Iran and the word 'khoram' means green and full of trees. In war, many people were killed in this sity and peopel chnged its name to 'Khuninshahr.' Khunin means full of blood.)
making the enemy back off from Khoramshahr
Fatherland means saying the prayers in love
means cleaning the dust from Love,
Fatherland means goal, means courage
means honor, means martyrdom
Fatherland means teh past, the present and teh future
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