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200-209

  • قصد ما سترست و پاکی و صلاح ** در دو عالم خود بدان باشد فلاح 200
  • Our quest is (for) modesty and purity and virtue: truly, welfare in both worlds depends on that.’

  • باز صوفی عذر درویشی بگفت ** و آن مکرر کرد تا نبود نهفت
  • The Súfí once more made the excuse of poverty and repeated it, so that it should not be hidden.

  • گفت زن من هم مکرر کرده‌ام ** بی‌جهازی را مقرر کرده‌ام
  • The wife replied, ‘I too have repeated it and have explained our lack of household goods;

  • اعتقاد اوست راسختر ز کوه ** که ز صد فقرش نمی‌آید شکوه
  • (But) her resolution is firmer than a mountain, for she is not dismayed by a hundred poverties.

  • او همی‌گوید مرادم عفتست ** از شما مقصود صدق و همتست
  • She keeps saying, What I want is chastity: the thing sought from you is sincerity and high-mindedness.’

  • گفت صوفی خود جهاز و مال ما ** دید و می‌بیند هویدا و خفا 205
  • The Súfí said, ‘In sooth she has seen and is seeing our household goods and possessions, (both) the overt and the covert—

  • خانه‌ی تنگی مقام یک تنی ** که درو پنهان نماند سوزنی
  • A narrow house, a dwelling-place for a single person, where a needle would not remain hid.

  • باز ستر و پاکی و زهد و صلاح ** او ز ما به داند اندر انتصاح
  • Moreover, she in (her) guilelessness knows better than we (what is) modesty and purity and renunciation and virtue.

  • به ز ما می‌داند او احوال ستر ** وز پس و پیش و سر و دنبال ستر
  • She knows better than we (all) the aspects of modesty, and the rear and front and head and tail of modesty.

  • ظاهرا او بی‌جهاز و خادمست ** وز صلاح و ستر او خود عالمست
  • Evidently she (our daughter) is without household goods and servant, and she (the lady) herself is well-acquainted with virtue and modesty.