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618-627

  • پیش او هیچ است لوت شصت کس ** کر کند خود را اگر گوییش بس‏
  • To him the food of sixty persons is nothing; he feigns himself deaf if you say to him, ‘Enough!’

  • مرد زندان را نیاید لقمه‏ای ** ور به صد حیلت گشاید طعمه‏ای‏
  • No morsel reaches the (ordinary) man in prison, or if by means of a hundred contrivances he discover some food,

  • در زمان پیش آید آن دوزخ گلو ** حجتش این که خدا گفتا کلوا 620
  • That hell-throat at once comes forward (with) this (as) his argument, that God has said, ‘Eat ye.’

  • زین چنین قحط سه ساله داد داد ** ظل مولانا ابد پاینده باد
  • Justice, justice against such a three years' famine! May the shadow of our lord endure for ever!

  • یا ز زندان تا رود این گاومیش ** یا وظیفه کن ز وقفی لقمه‏ایش‏
  • Either let this buffalo go from prison, or make him a regular allowance of food from a trust-fund.

  • ای ز تو خوش هم ذکور و هم اناث ** داد کن المستغاث المستغاث‏
  • O thou by whom both males and females are (made) happy, do justice! Thy help is invoked and besought.”

  • سوی قاضی شد وکیل با نمک ** گفت با قاضی شکایت یک به یک‏
  • The courteous agent went to the Cadi and related the complaint to him point by point.

  • خواند او را قاضی از زندان به پیش ** پس تفحص کرد از اعیان خویش‏ 625
  • The Cadi called him (the insolvent) from the prison into his presence, and (then) inquired (about him) from his own officers.

  • گشت ثابت پیش قاضی آن همه ** که نمودند از شکایت آن رمه‏
  • All the complaints which that flock (of prisoners) had set forth were proved to the Cadi.

  • گفت قاضی خیز از این زندان برو ** سوی خانه‏ی مرده‏ریگ خویش شو
  • The Cadi said (to him), “Get up and depart from this prison: go to the house which is your inherited property.”