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  • چون رسید آن کارد اندر استخوان ** حلقه زد خواجه که مهتر را بخوان
  • When the knife reached the bone, the Khwája knocked at the door, crying, “Call the master!”

  • چون بصد الحاح آمد سوی در ** گفت آخر چیست ای جان پدر 620
  • When (at last), in response to a hundred urgent entreaties, he came to the door, he said, “Why, what is it, my dear sir?”

  • گفت من آن حقها بگذاشتم ** ترک کردم آنچ می‌پنداشتم
  • He replied, “I abandon those claims (to thy gratitude), I renounce that (recompense) which I was fancying.

  • پنج‌ساله رنج دیدم پنج روز ** جان مسکینم درین گرما و سوز
  • I have suffered five years' pain: five days my miserable soul (hath been) amidst this heat and blaze.”

  • یک جفا از خویش و از یار و تبار ** در گرانی هست چون سیصد هزار
  • One injustice from kindred and friends and family is in heaviness as three hundred thousand,

  • زانک دل ننهاد بر جور و جفاش ** جانش خوگر بود با لطف و وفاش
  • Because he (the sufferer) did not set his mind on (anticipate) his (the friend's) cruelty and injustice: his soul was accustomed to kindness and faithfulness from him.

  • هرچه بر مردم بلا و شدتست ** این یقین دان کز خلاف عادتست 625
  • Whatsoever is tribulation and sore grief to men, know for sure that this is in consequence of its being contrary to habit.

  • گفت ای خورشید مهرت در زوال ** گر تو خونم ریختی کردم حلال
  • He (the townsman) said (further), “O thou the sun of whose love is in decline, if thou hast shed my blood, I acquit thee.

  • امشب باران به ما ده گوشه‌ای ** تا بیابی در قیامت توشه‌ای
  • On this night of rain give us a nook (to shelter in), so that at the Resurrection thou mayst obtain a viaticum (reward for the good work).”

  • گفت یک گوشه‌ست آن باغبان ** هست اینجا گرگ را او پاسبان
  • “There is a nook,” he replied, “belonging to the keeper of the vineyard: he keeps watch there against the wolf,

  • در کفش تیر و کمان از بهر گرگ ** تا زند گر آید آن گرگ سترگ
  • (With) bow and arrow in his hand on account of the wolf, so that he may shoot if the fierce wolf should come.

  • گر تو آن خدمت کنی جا آن تست ** ورنه جای دیگری فرمای جست 630
  • If thou wilt do that service, the place is thine; and if not, have the kindness to seek another place.”

  • گفت صد خدمت کنم تو جای ده ** آن کمان و تیر در کفم بنه
  • He said, “I will do a hundred services, (only) give thou the place, and put that bow and arrow in my hand.

  • من نخسپم حارسی رز کنم ** گر بر آرد گرگ سر تیرش زنم
  • I will not sleep, I will guard the vines; if the wolf raise his head, I will shoot the arrow at him.

  • بهر حق مگذارم امشب ای دودل ** آب باران بر سر و در زیر گل
  • For God's sake do not leave me to-night, O double-hearted (hypocrite), (with) the rain-water overhead and the mud underneath!”

  • گوشه‌ای خالی شد و او با عیال ** رفت آنجا جای تنگ و بی مجال
  • A nook was cleared, and he with his family went thither: (’twas) a narrow place and without room to turn.

  • چون ملخ بر همدگر گشته سوار ** از نهیب سیل اندر کنج غار 635
  • Mounted upon one another, like locusts, (and crowded) from terror of the flood into the corner of the cavern,

  • شب همه شب جمله گویان ای خدا ** این سزای ما سزای ما سزا
  • During the night, the whole night, they all (were) crying, “O God, this serves us right, serves us right, serves us right.”

  • این سزای آنک شد یار خسان ** یا کسی کرداز برای ناکسان
  • This is what is deserved by him that consorted with the vile, or showed worthiness for the sake of the unworthy.

  • این سزای آنک اندر طمع خام ** ترک گوید خدمت خاک کرام
  • This is what is deserved by him that in vain desire gives up paying homage to the dust of the noble.

  • خاک پاکان لیسی و دیوارشان ** بهتر از عام و رز و گلزارشان
  • That you lick the dust and the wall of the pure (elect) is better (for you) than the vulgar and their vines and rose-gardens.

  • بنده‌ی یک مرد روشن‌دل شوی ** به که بر فرق سر شاهان روی 640
  • That you become a slave to a man of enlightened heart is better (for you) than that you should walk upon the crown of the head of kings.

  • از ملوک خاک جز بانگ دهل ** تو نخواهی یافت ای پیک سبل
  • From the kings of earth you will get nothing but the (empty) noise of a drum, O courier of (many) roads.

  • شهریان خود ره‌زنان نسبت بروح ** روستایی کیست گیج و بی فتوح
  • Even the townsmen are brigands in comparison with the Spirit. Who is the countryman? The fool that is without spiritual gifts.

  • این سزای آنک بی تدبیر عقل ** بانگ غولی آمدش بگزید نقل
  • This is what is deserved by him who, (when) the cry of a ghoul came to him, without rational foresight chose to move (towards the ghoul).