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کین جهان خوردی و خواهی تو ز طمع ** کان جهان با این جهان گیری به جمع 3815
- For thou hast enjoyed this world, and in thy greed thou wouldst fain take the other world (to enjoy it) together with this world.”
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خنده‌اش آمد مال داد آن پیر را ** پیر تنها برد آن توفیر را
- He (the Sadr) laughed and gave the old man some money: the old man alone obtained the bounty.
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غیر آن پیر ایچ خواهنده ازو ** نیم حبه زر ندید و نه تسو
- Except that old man none of those who begged (aloud) saw half a mite or a single farthing of his money.
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نوبت روز فقیهان ناگهان ** یک فقیه از حرص آمد در فغان
- On the day when it was the turn of the jurists (to receive alms), a certain jurist, (impelled) by cupidity, suddenly began to whine.
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کرد زاری‌ها بسی چاره نبود ** گفت هر نوعی نبودش هیچ سود
- He made many piteous appeals, but there was no help (for him); he uttered every kind (of entreaty), but it availed him naught.
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روز دیگر با رگو پیچید پا ** ناکس اندر صف قوم مبتلا 3820
- Next day he wrapped his leg in rags (and stood) in the row of the sufferers (from illness), hanging his head.
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تخته‌ها بر ساق بست از چپ و راست ** تا گمان آید که او اشکسته‌پاست
- He tied splints on his shank, left and right, in order that it might be supposed that his leg was broken.
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دیدش و بشناختش چیزی نداد ** روز دیگر رو بپوشید از لباد
- He (the Sadr) saw and recognised him and did not give him anything. Next day he covered his face with a rain-cloak,
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هم بدانستش ندادش آن عزیز ** از گناه و جرم گفتن هیچ چیز
- (But) the noble lord knew him still and gave him nothing because of the sin and crime (which he had committed) by speaking.
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چونک عاجز شد ز صد گونه مکید ** چون زنان او چادری بر سر کشید
- When he had failed in a hundred sorts of trickery, he drew a chádar over his head, like women,