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3550-3559

  • ور ببندد در نباید آن زرش  ** تا بریزند آن عطا را بر درش  3550
  • And if he shut the door and (declare that he) has no need of the gold, let them pour the bounty at his door,

  • هر که آنجا بگذرد زر می‌برد  ** نیست هدیه‌ی مخلصان را مسترد 
  • (So that) every one who passes may carry gold away: the gifts of the sincere are never taken back.

  • بهر او بنهاده‌ام آن از دو سال  ** کرده‌ام من نذرها با ذوالجلال 
  • I laid it in store for him two years ago and vowed to the Almighty (that it should be his).

  • ور روا دارند چیزی زان ستد  ** بیست چندان خو زیانشان اوفتد 
  • And if they (my heirs) deem it permissible to take aught (for themselves), verily twentyfold loss will befall them.

  • گر روانم را پژولانند زود  ** صد در محنت بریشان بر گشود 
  • If they vex my spirit, a hundred doors of tribulation will at once be opened for them.

  • از خدا اومید دارم من لبق  ** که رساند حق را در مستحق  3555
  • I have good hope of God that He will cause the due (payment) to reach the person who has the right to it.”

  • دو قضیه‌ی دیگر او را شرح داد  ** لب به ذکر آن نخواهم بر گشاد 
  • He (the Khwája) unfolded two other matters to him (the bailiff), (but) I will not open my lips in mention of them,

  • تا بماند دو قضیه سر و راز  ** هم نگردد مثنوی چندین دراز 
  • In order that (these) two matters may remain secret and mysterious, and also that the Mathnawí may not become so very long.

  • برجهید از خواب انگشتک‌زنان  ** گه غزل‌گویان و گه نوحه‌کنان 
  • He (the bailiff) sprang up from sleep, (joyously) snapping his fingers, now singing love-songs and now making lament.

  • گفت مهمان در چه سوداهاستی  ** پای‌مردا مست و خوش بر خاستی 
  • The guest (the debtor) said, “In what mad fits are you (plunged)? O bailiff, you have risen intoxicated and merry.