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  • پس فقیر آن شیخ را احوال گفت ** عذر را با آن غرامت کرد جفت‏
  • Then the dervish told the Shaykh how the case stood, and coupled excuses with the discharge of that obligation.

  • مر سؤال شیخ را داد او جواب ** چون جوابات خضر خوب و صواب‏
  • To the Shaykh's questions he gave answer good and right, like the answers of Khadir—

  • آن جوابات سؤالات کلیم ** کش خضر بنمود از رب علیم‏
  • (Namely) those answers to the questions of Moses which Khadir, (inspired) by the all-knowing Lord, set forth to him,

  • گشت مشکلهاش حل و افزون زیاد ** از پی هر مشکلش مفتاح داد
  • (So that) his difficulties became solved, and he (Khadir) gave to him (Moses) the key to every question (in a way) beyond telling.

  • از خضر درویش هم میراث داشت ** در جواب شیخ همت بر گماشت‏ 3530
  • The dervish also had (a spiritual) inheritance from Khadir; (hence) he bent his will to answering the Shaykh.

  • گفت راه اوسط ار چه حکمت است ** لیک اوسط نیز هم با نسبت است‏
  • He said, “Although the middle path is (the way of) wisdom, yet the middle path too is relative.

  • آب جو نسبت به اشتر هست کم ** لیک باشد موش را آن همچو یم‏
  • Relatively to a camel, the water in the stream is little, but to a mouse it is like the ocean.

  • هر که را باشد وظیفه چار نان ** دو خورد یا سه خورد هست اوسط آن‏
  • If any one has an allowance of four loaves and eats two or three, that is the mean;

  • ور خورد هر چار دور از اوسط است ** او اسیر حرص مانند بط است‏
  • But if he eat all the four, it is far from the mean: he is in bondage to greed, like a duck.

  • هر که او را اشتها ده نان بود ** شش خورد می‏دان که اوسط آن بود 3535
  • If one has appetite for ten loaves and eats six, know that that is the mean.