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  • اشتها صادق بود تاخیر به  ** تا گواریده شود آن بی‌گره 
  • (If) the appetite be true, ’tis better to delay, in order that it (the food) may be digested without difficulty.

  • تو پی دفع بلایم می‌زنی  ** تا ببینی رخنه را بندش کنی 
  • Wilt thou beat me for the purpose of averting a (dreaded) calamity, to the end that thou mayst see the crevice and block it up,

  • تا از آن رخنه برون ناید بلا  ** غیر آن رخنه بسی دارد قضا 
  • So that the calamity will not issue from that crevice? Destiny hath many a crevice besides that one.

  • چاره‌ی دفع بلا نبود ستم  ** چاره احسان باشد و عفو و کرم  2590
  • Violence is not the means of averting calamity: the means is beneficence and pardon and kindness.

  • گفت الصدقه مرد للبلا  ** داو مرضاک به صدقه یا فتی 
  • He (the Prophet) said, ‘Alms is a means of averting calamity: cure thy diseased ones by (giving) alms, O youth.’

  • صدقه نبود سوختن درویش را  ** کور کردن چشم حلم‌اندیش را 
  • ’Tis not alms-giving to burn a poor man (in the fire of anger) and to blind the eye that meditates on forbearance.”

  • گفت شه نیکوست خیر و موقعش  ** لیک چون خیری کنی در موضعش 
  • The king replied, “Charity and the occasion for it are excellent (things), but (only) when you perform an act of charity in its (proper) place.

  • موضع رخ شه نهی ویرانیست  ** موضع شه اسپ هم نادانیست 
  • (If) you put the king in the rook's place, ’tis ruin (to the game); likewise, (if you put) the horse (knight) in the king's place, ’tis the act of an ignoramus.

  • در شریعت هم عطا هم زجر هست  ** شاه را صدر و فرس را درگه است  2595
  • Both bounty and severity are (sanctioned) in the religious Law: (’tis) for the king (to sit on) the throne, (’tis) for the horse (to stand at) the gate.

  • عدل چه بود وضع اندر موضعش  ** ظلم چه بود وضع در ناموقعش 
  • What is justice? To put (a thing) in its (right) place. What is injustice? To put it in its wrong place.