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  • آن نه‏ای که خواجه‏تاش تو نمود ** از تو ما را سرد می‏کرد آن حسود 875
  • You are not such as your fellow-servant declared: that envious one would (fain) have made me cold to (disgusted with) you,

  • گفت او دزد و کژ است و کژنشین ** حیز و نامرد و چنان است و چنین‏
  • (For) he said that you are thievish and dishonest and ill-behaved, immoral and infamous and so forth.”

  • گفت پیوسته بده ست او راست گو ** راست گویی من ندیده ستم چو او
  • The slave said, “He (my fellow-servant) has always been veracious; I have not seen any one so truthful as he is.

  • راست گویی در نهادش خلقتی است ** هر چه گوید من نگویم تهمتی است‏
  • Veracity is inborn in his nature; whatever he says, I do not say it is void (of truth).

  • کژ ندانم آن نکو اندیش را ** متهم دارم وجود خویش را
  • I deem not that good-minded one malicious: I (rather) suspect my own person.

  • باشد او در من ببیند عیبها ** من نبینم در وجود خود شها 880
  • Maybe, he sees in me faults I do not see in myself, O King.”

  • هر کسی گر عیب خود دیدی ز پیش ** کی بدی فارغ خود از اصلاح خویش‏
  • Any one saw his own faults before (seeing those of others) —how should he be unconcerned with correcting himself?

  • غافلند این خلق از خود ای پدر ** لاجرم گویند عیب همدگر
  • These people (of the world) take no heed of themselves, O father: consequently they blame one another.

  • من نبینم روی خود را ای شمن ** من ببینم روی تو تو روی من‏
  • O idolater (dualist), (if) I do not behold my own face (reality), I behold thy face and thou beholdest mine.

  • آن کسی که او ببیند روی خویش ** نور او از نور خلقان است بیش‏
  • He that beholds his own face (reality)—his light is greater than the light of the creatures (of God).

  • گر بمیرد دید او باقی بود ** ز انکه دیدش دید خلاقی بود 885
  • Though he die, his sight is everlasting, because his sight is the sight of the Creator.

  • نور حسی نبود آن نوری که او ** روی خود محسوس بیند پیش رو
  • That light by which he sensibly beholds his own face (reality) before him, is not the light of sense.

  • گفت اکنون عیبهای او بگو ** آن چنان که گفت او از عیب تو
  • The King said, “Now tell his (your fellow-servant's) faults, just as he spoke of yours,

  • تا بدانم که تو غم خوار منی ** کدخدای ملکت و کار منی‏
  • That I may know whether you are solicitous for me and a (good) house-steward of my property and business.”

  • گفت ای شه من بگویم عیبهاش ** گر چه هست او مر مرا خوش خواجه‏تاش‏
  • He replied, “O King, I will tell his faults, though he is to me a pleasing fellow-servant.

  • عیب او مهر و وفا و مردمی ** عیب او صدق و ذکا و هم دمی‏ 890
  • His faults are affection and loyalty and humanity; his faults are sincerity and keen wittedness and cordial comradeship.

  • کمترین عیبش جوانمردی و داد ** آن جوانمردی که جان را هم بداد
  • His least fault is generosity and bounty—the generosity that even gives up life.”

  • صد هزاران جان خدا کرده پدید ** چه جوانمردی بود کان را ندید
  • God has brought to view myriads of lives (in return for the life given up): what generosity would there be (in him) that saw not those?

  • ور بدیدی کی به جان بخلش بدی ** بهر یک جان کی چنین غمگین شدی‏
  • And if he saw them, how should he grudge his life? How should he become so grieved for the sake of one life?

  • بر لب جو بخل آب آن را بود ** کاو ز جوی آب نابینا بود
  • On the river-bank, water is grudged by him (alone) that is blind to the stream of water.

  • گفت پیغمبر که هر که از یقین ** داند او پاداش خود در یوم دین‏ 895
  • The Prophet said, “Whosoever knows for sure his recompense on the day of Resurrection—

  • که یکی را ده عوض می‏آیدش ** هر زمان جودی دگرگون زایدش‏
  • That his compensation will be ten for one—at every moment a different (act of) munificence will issue from him.”

  • جود جمله از عوضها دیدن است ** پس عوض دیدن ضد ترسیدن است‏
  • All munificence is from seeing compensations; therefore seeing the compensation is opposed to fearing (and shrinking from the act of munificence).

  • بخل نادیدن بود اعواض را ** شاد دارد دید در خواض را
  • Miserliness consists in not seeing compensations: the prospect of pearls keeps the divers glad.

  • پس به عالم هیچ کس نبود بخیل ** ز انکه کس چیزی نبازد بی‏بدیل‏
  • Hence no one in the world is miserly, since no one hazards anything without (seeing) what is to be received in exchange.