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شیخ روزی چار کرت چون فقیر ** بهر کدیه رفت در قصر امیر
- One day the Shaykh went four times to the palace of an Amír, in order to beg like a dervish,
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در کفش زنبیل و شی لله زنان ** خالق جان می‌بجوید تای نان 2750
- (With) a basket in his hand, crying, “Something for God's sake! The Creator of the soul is seeking a piece of bread.”
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نعلهای بازگونه‌ست ای پسر ** عقل کلی را کند هم خیره‌سر
- ’Tis preposterous, O son: it makes even Universal Reason giddy-headed (astounded).
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چون امیرش دید گفتش ای وقیح ** گویمت چیزی منه نامم شحیح
- When the Amír saw him, he said to him, “O impudent man, I will tell you something, (but) do not fasten on me the name of niggard.
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این چه سغری و چه رویست و چه کار ** که به روزی اندر آیی چار بار
- What callousness and effrontery and (insolent) behaviour is this, that you come in (here) four times in one day?
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کیست اینجا شیخ اندر بند تو ** من ندیدم نر گدا مانند تو
- Who here is attached to you, Shaykh? Never have I seen a sturdy beggar like you.
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حرمت و آب گدایان برده‌ای ** این چه عباسی زشت آورده‌ای 2755
- You have brought (all) beggars into contempt and disgrace: what abominable importunity, worthy of ‘Abbás (himself), is this that you have shown!
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غاشیه بر دوش تو عباس دبس ** هیچ ملحد را مباد این نفس نحس
- ‘Abbás (the seller) of date-syrup is (merely) your groom: may no freethinker (mulhid) have such an ill-starred soul!”
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گفت امیرا بنده فرمانم خموش ** ز آتشم آگه نه‌ای چندین مجوش
- He replied, “O Amír, I am devoted to the (Divine) command. Be silent! Thou art not acquainted with my (inward) fire: do not boil (rage) so much!
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بهر نان در خویش حرصی دیدمی ** اشکم نان‌خواه را بدریدمی
- Had I found in myself any greed for bread, I would have ripped my bread craving belly.