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هر که دعوی آردش اینجا به فن ** بیش زندانش نخواهم کرد من
- Whosoever may bring here a claim against him for fraud, I will not put him in prison any more.
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پیش من افلاس او ثابت شده است ** نقد و کالا نیستش چیزی به دست
- His insolvency has been proven to me: he has nothing in his possession, (neither) money nor goods.”
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آدمی در حبس دنیا ز آن بود ** تا بود کافلاس او ثابت شود
- Man is in the prison of this world in order that peradventure his insolvency may be proven.
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مفلسی دیو را یزدان ما ** هم منادی کرد در قرآن ما
- Our God has also proclaimed in our Qur’án the insolvency of the Devil,
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کاو دغا و مفلس است و بد سخن ** هیچ با او شرکت و سودا مکن 655
- Saying, “He is a swindler and insolvent and liar: do not make any partnership or do any trade with him.”
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ور کنی او را بهانه آوری ** مفلس است او صرفه از وی کی بری
- And if you do so (and) bring (vain) pretexts to him, he is insolvent: how will you get profit from him?
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حاضر آوردند چون فتنه فروخت ** اشتر کردی که هیزم میفروخت
- When the trouble started, they brought on the scene the camel of a Kurd who sold firewood.
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کرد بیچاره بسی فریاد کرد ** هم موکل را به دانگی شاد کرد
- The helpless Kurd made a great outcry; he also gladdened the officer (appointed to seize the camel) with (the gift of) a dáng;
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اشترش بردند از هنگام چاشت ** تا شب و افغان او سودی نداشت
- (But) they took away his camel from the time of forenoon until nightfall, and his lamentation was of no use.
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بر شتر بنشست آن قحط گران ** صاحب اشتر پی اشتر دوان 660
- Upon the camel sat that sore famine (the insolvent), while the owner of the camel was running at its heels.