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831-840

  • مر شما را نیز در سوداگری  ** دست کی جنبد چو نبود مشتری 
  • Ye (worldly folk) also (who are engaged) in commerce—how should your hands move (to sell anything) when there is no buyer?

  • کی نظاره اهل بخریدن بود  ** آن نظاره گول گردیدن بود 
  • How should (idle) looking-on be capable of buying? The fool's looking-on is (not for buying, but merely for) loitering.

  • پرس پرسان کین به چند و آن به چند  ** از پی تعبیر وقت و ریش‌خند 
  • (He strolls about) continually asking, “How much is this?” and “How much is that?” for the sake of pastime and mockery.

  • از ملولی کاله می‌خواهد ز تو  ** نیست آن کس مشتری و کاله‌جو 
  • (’Tis only) from boredom (that) he asks you (to show him) your goods: that person is not a buyer and customer.

  • کاله را صد بار دید و باز داد  ** جامه کی پیمود او پیمود باد  835
  • He inspects the article a hundred times and hands it back (to you): when did he (ever) measure a piece of cloth? He measured wind (and nothing else).

  • کو قدوم و کر و فر مشتری  ** کو مزاح گنگلی سرسری 
  • What a distance between the approach and bargaining of a purchaser and the pleasantries of a silly joker?

  • چونک در ملکش نباشد حبه‌ای  ** جز پی گنگل چه جوید جبه‌ای 
  • Since there is not a mite in his possession, how should he seek (to buy) a coat except in jest?

  • در تجارت نیستش سرمایه‌ای  ** پس چه شخص زشت او چه سایه‌ای 
  • He has no capital for trading: what, then, is the difference between his ill-favoured person and a shadow?

  • مایه در بازار این دنیا زرست  ** مایه آنجا عشق و دو چشم ترست 
  • The capital (required) for the market of this world is gold; there (in the next world) the capital is love and two eyes wet (with tears).

  • هر که او بی‌مایه‌ی بازار رفت  ** عمر رفت و بازگشت او خام تفت  840
  • Whoever went to market without any capital, his life passed and he speedily returned in disappointment.