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  • گر چنین بودی همه عالم بدین ** یک دعا املاک بردندی بکین
  • If it were so, by means of a single prayer of this kind the whole world would carry off (one another’s) possessions by force.

  • گر چنین بودی گدایان ضریر ** محتشم گشته بدندی و امیر
  • If it were so, the blind beggars would have become grandees and princes;

  • روز و شب اندر دعااند و ثنا ** لابه‌گویان که تو ده‌مان ای خدا
  • (For) they are (engaged) day and night in invocation and praise (of God), uttering entreaties and crying, ‘O God, do Thou give unto us!

  • تا تو ندهی هیچ کس ندهد یقین ** ای گشاینده تو بگشا بند این 2325
  • Unless Thou give, assuredly no one will give (us anything): O Opener, do Thou open the lock of this (bounty)!’

  • مکسب کوران بود لابه و دعا ** جز لب نانی نیابند از عطا
  • Supplication and prayer is the means whereby the blind earn their livelihood, (yet) they get no gift but a crust of bread.”

  • خلق گفتند این مسلمان راست‌گوست ** وین فروشنده‌ی دعاها ظلم‌جوست
  • The people said, “This Moslem speaks the truth, and this prayer-monger is one who seeks to act unjustly.

  • این دعا کی باشد از اسباب ملک ** کی کشید این را شریعت خود بسلک
  • How should this prayer be a means of acquiring property? When forsooth did the religious Law enter this on the roll?

  • بیع و بخشش یا وصیت یا عطا ** یا ز جنس این شود ملکی ترا
  • A thing becomes your property by sale and donation or by bequest and gift or by some means of this kind.

  • در کدامین دفترست این شرع نو ** گاو را تو باز ده یا حبس رو 2330
  • In what book is this new statute (to be found)? Give back the cow or go to prison!”

  • او به سوی آسمان می‌کرد رو ** واقعه‌ی ما را نداند غیر تو
  • He (the poor man) was turning his face to Heaven (and saying), “None knoweth my (spiritual) experience save Thee.