یک خلیفه بود در ایام پیش ** کرده حاتم را غلام جود خویش‌‌

In former days there was a Caliph who made Hátim the slave of his liberality.

رایت اکرام و داد افراشته ** فقر و حاجت از جهان برداشته‌‌ 2245

He had raised high the banner of munificence and largesse, he had removed poverty and want from the world.

بحر و کان از بخشش‌‌اش صاف آمده ** داد او از قاف تا قاف آمده‌‌

(He was) a sea (of bounty), and the pearls (in it) came pure (untarnished) from his munificence: his largesse reached from Qáf to Qáf.

در جهان خاک ابر و آب بود ** مظهر بخشایش وهاب بود

In this world of dust he was the cloud and the rain: he was the centre wherein the bounty of the Giver of all displayed itself.

از عطایش بحر و کان در زلزله ** سوی جودش قافله بر قافله‌‌

His gifts caused sea and mine to quake (tremble with shame): caravan on caravan (were hastening) towards his liberality.

قبله‌‌ی حاجت در و دروازه‌‌اش ** رفته در عالم به جود آوازه‌‌اش‌‌

His gate and portal was the point to which Need turned: the fame of his munificence had gone (far and wide) into the world.

هم عجم هم روم هم ترک و عرب ** مانده از جود و سخایش در عجب‌‌ 2250

Persians and Greeks, Turcomans and Arabs, were lost in amazement at his liberality and generosity.

آب حیوان بود و دریای کرم ** زنده گشته هم عرب زو هم عجم‌‌

He was the Water of Life and the Ocean of Bounty: by him both Arabs and foreigners were revived.

قصه‌‌ی اعرابی درویش و ماجرای زن با او به سبب قلت و درویشی‌‌

Story of the poor Arab of the desert and his wife's altercation with him because of (their) penury and poverty.

یک شب اعرابی زنی مر شوی را ** گفت و از حد برد گفت‌‌وگوی را

One night a Bedouin woman said to her husband—and she carried (her) talk beyond bounds—

کاین همه فقر و جفا ما می‌‌کشیم ** جمله عالم در خوشی ما ناخوشیم‌‌

“We are suffering all this poverty and hardship: all the world are (living) in happiness, we (alone) are unhappy.