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.

شرح مستوری ز بابا شرط نیست ** چون برو پیدا چو روز روشنیست 210

It is not required of a father to dilate on (his daughter's) modesty, when in her it is manifest as a bright day.’

این حکایت را بدان گفتم که تا ** لاف کم بافی چو رسوا شد خطا

I have told this story with the intent that thou mayst not weave idle talk when the offence is glaring.