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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).
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صد تدارک بود چون حاضر بدند ** این زمان هر یک به اقلیمی شدند
- There were a hundred ways of mending (the injury) when they (the Súfís) were present, (but) now each one is gone to a (different) clime.
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من که را گیرم که را قاضی برم ** این قضا خود از تو آمد بر سرم
- Whom should I seize? Whom should I take to the Cadi? ’Tis from you in sooth that this judgement has come upon me.
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چون نیایی و نگویی ای غریب ** پیش آمد این چنین ظلمی مهیب
- How wouldn't you come and say (to me), ‘O stranger, such a terrible outrage has occurred’?”
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گفت و الله آمدم من بارها ** تا ترا واقف کنم زین کارها
- “By God,” said he, “I came several times to inform you of these doings,