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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.
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سو به سو و کو به کو میتاختند ** تا همه شهرش عیان بشناختند
- They sped from quarter to quarter and from street to street, till the whole town knew him by sight.
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پیش هر حمام و هر بازارگاه ** کرده مردم جمله در شکلش نگاه
- Before every bath and market-place all the people gazed on his (features and) figure.
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ده منادی گر بلند آوازیان ** کرد و ترک و رومیان و تازیان
- (There were) ten loud-voiced criers, Turks and Kurds and Anatolians and Arabs, (proclaiming),
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مفلس است این و ندارد هیچ چیز ** قرض تا ندهد کس او را یک پشیز
- “This man is insolvent and has nothing: let no one lend him a single brass farthing;