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  • وز خدا می‌خواست روزی حلال ** بی شکار و رنج و کسب و انتقال
  • And beg of God a lawful means of livelihood without pursuit and trouble and work and movement (from one place to another).

  • پیش ازین گفتیم بعضی حال او ** لیک تعویق آمد و شد پنج‌تو
  • We have formerly related a part of what happened to him, but hindrance intervened and became fivefold.

  • هم بگوییمش کجا خواهد گریخت ** چون ز ابر فضل حق حکمت بریخت
  • (Now) too we shall tell( the rest of) it. Whither will it (the story) flee, since wisdom has poured (on us) from the clouds of God’s bounty?

  • صاحب گاوش بدید و گفت هین ** ای بظلمت گاو من گشته رهین 2310
  • The owner of the cow espied him and said “Hey, O you to whose unrighteousness my cow has fallen a prey,

  • هین چراکشتی بگو گاو مرا ** ابله طرار انصاف اندر آ
  • Hey, tell (me) why did you kill my cow? Fool! Cutpurse! Deal fairly (with me).”

  • گفت من روزی ز حق می‌خواستم ** قبله را از لابه می‌آراستم
  • He said, “I was begging God for daily bread and preparing aqibla(for myself) of supplication.

  • آن دعای کهنه‌ام شد مستجاب ** روزی من بود کشتم نک جواب
  • That ancient prayer of mine was answered (by God). She (the cow) was my portion of daily bread: I killed her. Behold the answer (to your question)!”

  • او ز خشم آمد گریبانش گرفت ** چند مشتی زد به رویش ناشکفت
  • He (the owner of the cow) came angrily and seized his collar; having lost patience, he struck him in the face with his fist several times.

  • رفتن هر دو خصم نزد داود علیه السلام
  • How both the adversaries went to David, on whom be peace.

  • می‌کشیدش تا به داود نبی ** که بیا ای ظالم گیج غبی 2315
  • He led him to the Prophet David, saying, “Come, O you crazy fool and criminal!

  • حجت بارد رها کن ای دغا ** عقل در تن آور و با خویش آ
  • Drop (this) silly argument, O impostor; let (some) intelligence into your body and come to your senses!

  • این چه می‌گویی دعا چه بود مخند ** بر سر و و ریش من و خویش ای لوند
  • What is this that you are saying? What is the prayer (you speak of)? Do not laugh at my head and beard and your own (too), O scoundrel!”

  • گفت من با حق دعاها کرده‌ام ** اندرین لابه بسی خون خورده‌ام
  • He (the poor man) said, “I have offered (many) prayers to God, I have borne much toil and pain in this supplication.

  • من یقین دارم دعا شد مستجاب ** سر بزن بر سنگ ای منکرخطاب
  • I possess the certainty (that) the prayer has been answered. Dash your head against the stones, O foul-spoken one!”

  • گفت گرد آیید هین یا مسلمین ** ژاژ بینید و فشار این مهین 2320
  • He cried, “Hey, gather round, O Moslems! Behold the drivel and raving of this imbecile!

  • ای مسلمانان دعا مال مرا ** چون از آن او کند بهر خدا
  • O Moslems, for God’s sake, how should prayer make my property belong to him?

  • 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.