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387-396

  • تخمها می‏کاشت تا روز اجل ** تا بود روز اجل میر اجل‏
  • He was sowing seeds till the day of death, that on the day of death he might be a most glorious prince.

  • چون که عمر شیخ در آخر رسید ** در وجود خود نشان مرگ دید
  • When the Shaykh's life reached its end and he saw in his (bodily) existence the signs of death,

  • وامداران گرد او بنشسته جمع ** شیخ بر خود خوش گدازان همچو شمع‏
  • The creditors were seated together around him, (while) the Shaykh was gently melting on himself, like a candle.

  • وامداران گشته نومید و ترش ** درد دلها یار شد با درد شش‏ 390
  • The creditors had become despairing and sour-faced: the pain in (their) hearts was accompanied by pain in (their) lungs.

  • شیخ گفت این بد گمانان را نگر ** نیست حق را چار صد دینار زر
  • “Look at these evil-thinking men,” said the Shaykh. “Hath not God four hundred gold dinars?”

  • کودکی حلوا ز بیرون بانگ زد ** لاف حلوا بر امید دانگ زد
  • A boy outside shouted “Halwá!” and bragged of (the excellence of) the halwá in hope of (getting) some dángs.

  • شیخ اشارت کرد خادم را به سر ** که برو آن جمله حلوا را بخر
  • The Shaykh with (a nod of) his head directed the famulus to go and buy the whole of the halwá,

  • تا غریمان چون که آن حلوا خورند ** یک زمانی تلخ در من ننگرند
  • (Saying to himself), “so that the creditors, when they eat the halwá, for a (short) while may not look bitterly on me.”

  • در زمان خادم برون آمد به در ** تا خرد او جمله حلوا ز ان پسر 395
  • The famulus at once went out through the doorway to buy with gold the halwá entire.

  • گفت او را جمله‏ی حلوا به چند ** گفت کودک نیم دیناری و اند
  • He said to the boy, “How much is the halwá in the lump?” The boy said, “Half a dinar and some small change.”