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  • در دل نه‌دل حسدها سر کند  ** نیست را هست این چنین مضطر کند 
  • Envies arise in the heart that is no (real) heart: thus doth Being subject not being to compulsion.

  • این زنانی کز همه مشفق‌تراند  ** از حسد دو ضره خود را می‌خورند 
  • These women, who are kinder than all (other creatures)—(even amongst them) two fellow-wives devour each other from envy,

  • تا که مردانی که خود سنگین‌دلند  ** از حسد تا در کدامین منزلند 
  • So that (you may judge) in what degree of envy are the men who indeed are stony-hearted.

  • گر نکردی شرع افسونی لطیف  ** بر دریدی هر کسی جسم حریف  1210
  • If the Law had not exercised a gracious spell (over them), every one would have torn the body of his rival to pieces.

  • شرع بهر دفع شر رایی زند  ** دیو را در شیشه‌ی حجت کند 
  • The Law makes a plan for repelling evil: it puts the demon into the bottle of (legal) proof—

  • از گواه و از یمین و از نکول  ** تا به شیشه در رود دیو فضول 
  • Witness and oath and shrinking (from the oath)—till (at last) the insolent demon goes into the bottle (prison).

  • مثل میزانی که خشنودی دو ضد  ** جمع می‌آید یقین در هزل و جد 
  • (The Law is) like the balance whereby the two adversaries are surely united in contentment, (whether) in jest or earnest.

  • شرع چون کیله و ترازو دان یقین  ** که بدو خصمان رهند از جنگ و کین 
  • Know for sure that the Law is like the measure and scales by means of which the litigants are saved from wrangling and enmity.

  • گر ترازو نبود آن خصم از جدال  ** کی رهد از وهم حیف و احتیال  1215
  • If there be no pair of scales, how shall the litigant escape from disputing when he suspects fraud and deceit?

  • پس درین مردار زشت بی‌وفا  ** این همه رشکست و خصمست و جفا 
  • (If), then, there is all this jealousy and litigation and injustice in respect of this foul faithless carcase,