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  • گفت گل سنگ ترازوی منست ** گر ترا میل شکر بخریدنست
  • He said, “If you want to buy sugar, my balance-weight is clay.”

  • گفت هستم در مهمی قندجو ** سنگ میزان هر چه خواهی باش گو
  • He (the customer) said, “I am requiring sugar for an urgent affair: let the balance-weight be whatever you wish.”

  • گفت با خود پیش آنک گل‌خورست ** سنگ چه بود گل نکوتر از زرست
  • To himself he said, “What does the weight matter to one that eats clay? Clay is better than gold.”

  • هم‌چو آن دلاله که گفت ای پسر ** نو عروسی یافتم بس خوب‌فر 630
  • As the dallála (go-between) who said, “O son, I have found a very beautiful new bride (for you).

  • سخت زیبا لیک هم یک چیز هست ** که آن ستیره دختر حلواگرست
  • (She is) exceedingly pretty, but there is just one thing, that the lady is a confectioner's daughter.”

  • گفت بهتر این چنین خود گر بود ** دختر او چرب و شیرین‌تر بود
  • “(All the) better,” said he; “if it is indeed so, his daughter will be fatter and sweeter.”

  • گر نداری سنگ و سنگت از گلست ** این به و به گل مرا میوه‌ی دلست
  • “If you have no (proper) weight and your weight is of clay, this is better and better: clay is the fruit (desired) of my heart.”

  • اندر آن کفه‌ی ترازو ز اعتداد ** او به جای سنگ آن گل را نهاد
  • He (the druggist) placed the clay, because of its being ready (to his hand), in one scale of the balance instead of the (proper) weight;

  • پس برای کفه‌ی دیگر به دست ** هم به قدر آن شکر را می‌شکست 635
  • Then, for the other scale, he was breaking with his hand the equivalent amount of sugar.

  • چون نبودش تیشه‌ای او دیر ماند ** مشتری را منتظر آنجا نشاند
  • Since he had no pick-axe, he took a long time and made the customer sit waiting.

  • رویش آن سو بود گل‌خور ناشکفت ** گل ازو پوشیده دزدیدن گرفت
  • (Whilst) his face was (turned) towards that (sugar), the clay-eater, unable to restrain himself, began covertly to steal the clay from him,

  • ترس ترسان که نباید ناگهان ** چشم او بر من فتد از امتحان
  • Terribly frightened lest his (the druggist's) eye should fall upon him of a sudden for the purpose of testing (his honesty).

  • دید عطار آن و خود مشغول کرد ** که فزون‌تر دزد هین ای روی‌زرد
  • The druggist saw it, but made himself busy, saying, “Come, steal more, O pale-faced one!

  • گر بدزدی وز گل من می‌بری ** رو که هم از پهلوی خود می‌خوری 640
  • If you will be a thief and take some of my clay, go on (doing so), for you are eating out of your own side.

  • تو همی ترسی ز من لیک از خری ** من همی‌ترسم که تو کمتر خوری
  • You are afraid of me, but (only) because you are a (stupid) ass: I am afraid you will eat less (too little).

  • گرچه مشغولم چنان احمق نیم ** که شکر افزون کشی تو از نیم
  • Though I am occupied, I am not such a fool (as to suffer) that you should get too much of my sugar-cane.

  • چون ببینی مر شکر را ز آزمود ** پس بدانی احمق و غافل کی بود
  • When you see (find) by experience the (amount of) sugar (which you have bought), then you will know who was foolish and careless.”

  • مرغ زان دانه نظر خوش می‌کند ** دانه هم از دور راهش می‌زند
  • The bird looks pleased at the bait; still, the bait, (though) at a distance (from it), is waylaying it.

  • کز زنای چشم حظی می‌بری ** نه کباب از پهلوی خود می‌خوری 645
  • If you are deriving some pleasure from the eye's cupidity, are not you eating roast-meat from your own side?

  • این نظر از دور چون تیرست و سم ** عشقت افزون می‌شود صبر تو کم
  • This looking from a distance is like arrows and poison: your fond passion is increased (thereby) and your self-restraint diminished.

  • مال دنیا دام مرغان ضعیف ** ملک عقبی دام مرغان شریف
  • Worldly riches are a trap for the weak birds; the kingdom of the next world is a trap for the noble birds,

  • تا بدین ملکی که او دامست ژرف ** در شکار آرند مرغان شگرف
  • To the end that by means of this kingdom, which is a deep trap, the great birds may be ensnared.

  • من سلیمان می‌نخواهم ملکتان ** بلک من برهانم از هر هلکتان
  • “I, Solomon, do not desire your kingdom; nay, but I will deliver you from every destruction;

  • کین زمان هستید خود مملوک ملک ** مالک ملک آنک بجهید او ز هلک 650
  • For at this time ye are indeed slaves to the kingdom; the owner of the kingdom is he that escaped from destruction.”

  • بازگونه ای اسیر این جهان ** نام خود کردی امیر این جهان
  • Preposterously, O prisoner of this world, thou hast named thyself prince of this world.