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  • تا رسد در همرهان او می‏شتافت ** رفت در آخر خر خود را نیافت‏
  • He was hurrying that he might overtake his fellow-travellers; he went into the stable but did not find the ass.

  • گفت آن خادم به آبش برده است ** ز انکه خر دوش آب کمتر خورده است‏
  • He said, “The servant has taken it (the ass) to water, because it drank little water last night.”

  • خادم آمد گفت صوفی خر کجاست ** گفت خادم ریش بین جنگی بخاست‏
  • The servant came, and the Súfí said to him, “Where is the ass?” “Look at your beard,” replied the servant, and a quarrel arose.

  • گفت من خر را به تو بسپرده‏ام ** من ترا بر خر موکل کرده‏ام‏ 545
  • He (the Súfí) said, “I have entrusted the ass to you, I have put you in charge of the ass.

  • از تو خواهم آن چه من دادم به تو ** باز ده آن چه فرستادم به تو
  • Discuss (the matter) with propriety, don't argue: deliver back to me what I delivered to you.

  • بحث با توجیه کن حجت میار ** آن چه بسپردم ترا واپس سپار
  • I demand from you what I gave to you: return that which I sent to you.

  • گفت پیغمبر که دستت هر چه برد ** بایدش در عاقبت واپس سپرد
  • The Prophet said that whatever your hand has taken must in the end be restored (to its owner).

  • ور نه‏ای از سرکشی راضی بدین ** نک من و تو خانه‏ی قاضی دین‏
  • And if you, from insolence, are not content with this, look here, let us (go) to the house of the Cadi of (our) religion.”

  • گفت من مغلوب بودم صوفیان ** حمله آوردند و بودم بیم جان‏ 550
  • The servant said, “I was overpowered: the Súfís rushed (on me), and I was in fear for my life.

  • تو جگر بندی میان گربگان ** اندر اندازی و جویی ز آن نشان‏
  • Do you throw a liver with the parts next it amongst cats, and (then) seek the trace of it?

  • در میان صد گرسنه گرده‏ای ** پیش صد سگ گربه‏ی پژمرده‏ای‏
  • One cake of bread amongst a hundred hungry people, one wasted (starved) cat before a hundred dogs?”

  • گفت گیرم کز تو ظلما بستدند ** قاصد خون من مسکین شدند
  • “I suppose,” said the Súfí, “that they took it (the ass) from you by violence, (and thereby) aimed at the life of wretched me;

  • تو نیایی و نگویی مر مرا ** که خرت را می‏برند ای بی‏نوا
  • (And seeing this) you would not come and say to me, ‘They are taking away your ass, O poor man!’

  • تا خر از هر که بود من واخرم ** ور نه توزیعی کنند ایشان زرم‏ 555
  • So that I might buy back the ass from (the purchaser) whoever he is, or else they might divide my money (amongst themselves and return the ass to me).

  • صد تدارک بود چون حاضر بدند ** این زمان هر یک به اقلیمی شدند
  • There were a hundred ways of mending (the injury) when they (the Súfís) were present, (but) now each one is gone to a (different) clime.

  • من که را گیرم که را قاضی برم ** این قضا خود از تو آمد بر سرم‏
  • Whom should I seize? Whom should I take to the Cadi? ’Tis from you in sooth that this judgement has come upon me.

  • چون نیایی و نگویی ای غریب ** پیش آمد این چنین ظلمی مهیب‏
  • How wouldn't you come and say (to me), ‘O stranger, such a terrible outrage has occurred’?”

  • گفت و الله آمدم من بارها ** تا ترا واقف کنم زین کارها
  • “By God,” said he, “I came several times to inform you of these doings,

  • تو همی‏گفتی که خر رفت ای پسر ** از همه گویندگان با ذوق‏تر 560
  • (But) you were always saying, ‘The ass is gone, O son,’ with more gusto than all (the others) who said it.

  • باز می‏گشتم که او خود واقف است ** زین قضا راضی است مردی عارف است‏
  • (So) I was (always) going back, (thinking), ‘He himself is aware; he is satisfied with this (Divine) judgement: he is a man that knows (God)’.”

  • گفت آن را جمله می‏گفتند خوش ** مر مرا هم ذوق آمد گفتنش‏
  • The Súfí said, “They all were saying (it) merrily, (so) I also took delight in saying it.

  • مر مرا تقلیدشان بر باد داد ** که دو صد لعنت بر آن تقلید باد
  • Blind imitation of them has brought me to ruin: two hundred curses be on that imitation!

  • خاصه تقلید چنین بی‏حاصلان ** خشم ابراهیم با بر آفلان‏
  • Especially (on) imitation of such good-for-nothing rascals— the wrath of Abraham be on them that sink!

  • عکس ذوق آن جماعت می‏زدی ** وین دلم ز آن عکس ذوقی می‏شدی‏ 565
  • The delight of that company (of Súfís) was casting a reflexion, and this heart of mine was becoming delighted by that reflexion.”

  • عکس چندان باید از یاران خوش ** که شوی از بحر بی‏عکس آب کش‏
  • The reflexion (cast) from goodly friends is necessary until you become, without (the aid of any) reflexion, a drawer of water from the Sea.