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از تو خواهم آن چه من دادم به تو ** باز ده آن چه فرستادم به تو
- Discuss (the matter) with propriety, don't argue: deliver back to me what I delivered to you.
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بحث با توجیه کن حجت میار ** آن چه بسپردم ترا واپس سپار
- I demand from you what I gave to you: return that which I sent to you.
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گفت پیغمبر که دستت هر چه برد ** بایدش در عاقبت واپس سپرد
- The Prophet said that whatever your hand has taken must in the end be restored (to its owner).
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ور نهای از سرکشی راضی بدین ** نک من و تو خانهی قاضی دین
- And if you, from insolence, are not content with this, look here, let us (go) to the house of the Cadi of (our) religion.”
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گفت من مغلوب بودم صوفیان ** حمله آوردند و بودم بیم جان 550
- The servant said, “I was overpowered: the Súfís rushed (on me), and I was in fear for my life.
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تو جگر بندی میان گربگان ** اندر اندازی و جویی ز آن نشان
- Do you throw a liver with the parts next it amongst cats, and (then) seek the trace of it?
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در میان صد گرسنه گردهای ** پیش صد سگ گربهی پژمردهای
- One cake of bread amongst a hundred hungry people, one wasted (starved) cat before a hundred dogs?”
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گفت گیرم کز تو ظلما بستدند ** قاصد خون من مسکین شدند
- “I suppose,” said the Súfí, “that they took it (the ass) from you by violence, (and thereby) aimed at the life of wretched me;
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تو نیایی و نگویی مر مرا ** که خرت را میبرند ای بینوا
- (And seeing this) you would not come and say to me, ‘They are taking away your ass, O poor man!’
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تا خر از هر که بود من واخرم ** ور نه توزیعی کنند ایشان زرم 555
- So that I might buy back the ass from (the purchaser) whoever he is, or else they might divide my money (amongst themselves and return the ass to me).